Dynamic splitting of large intensity-modulated fields

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1731-1740

  Wu, Qiuwen ^a   Arnfield, Mark ^a   Tong, Shidong ^a   Wu, Yan ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHYSICS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 0033926747     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/7/302     Document Type: Article

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