Improvement of tomographic intensity modulated radiotherapy dose distributions using periodic shifting of arc abatement regions

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1610-1616

  Leybovich, Leonid B ^a   Dogan, Nesrin ^a   Sethi, Anil ^a   Krasin, Matthew J ^a   Emami, Bahman ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abutment regions; Dose nonuniformity; Intensity modulated radiation therapy; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

ABUTMENTS (BRIDGE);

CRITICAL STRUCTURES; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; NONUNIFORMITY; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; RADIATION ONCOLOGISTS; SENSITIVE STRUCTURE; TOMOTHERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; ONCOLOGY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0033866517     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.599027     Document Type: Article

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