Superficial doses from serial tomotherapy delivery

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 163-165

  Mutic, Sasa ^a   Low, Daniel A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose measurements; Intensity modulated radiation therapy; Serial tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL COMPUTING; PHANTOMS;

CONVENTIONAL RADIATION THERAPY; CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; DOSE MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0033983125     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598880     Document Type: Article

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