Hardware-sensitive optimization for intensity modulated radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 429-440

  Cho, Paul S ^a   Marks II, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 0033962674     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/2/312     Document Type: Article

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