On isocentre adjustment and quality control in linear accelerator based radiosurgery with circular collimators and room lasers

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2331-2342

  Treuer, H ^a   Hoevels, M ^a   Luyken, K ^a   Gierich, A ^a   Kocher, M ^a   Muller R P ^a   Sturm, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR ACCELERATORS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

CIRCULAR COLLIMATORS; DENSITOMETRY; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTACTIC COLLIMATORS;

LASER SURGERY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DENSITOMETRY; LASER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; DENSITOMETRY; LASERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOSURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; X-RAY FILM;

EID: 0033863830     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/8/318     Document Type: Article

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