Calculation of x-ray transmission through a multileaf collimator

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1717-1726

  Chen, Yan ^a   Boyer, Arthur L ^a   Ma, C M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose calculation; IMRT; MLC transmission; Monte Carlo simulation; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONVOLUTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RAY TRACING; TRANSMISSIONS; X RAYS;

CONVOLUTION METHODS; DOSE CALCULATION; FLUENCE DISTRIBUTION; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCESS; RAY TRACING CALCULATIONS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; VALIDATION PROCESS; X RAY;

EID: 0033850009     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1286555     Document Type: Article

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