A dosimetric leaf-setting strategy for shaping radiation fields using a multileaf collimator

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 972-977

  Ma, Lijun ^a   Yu, Cedric ^a   Sarfaraz, Merhdad ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cerrobend block; Leaf setting; Multileaf collimator; Radiation field; X ray dosimetry

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ITERATIVE METHODS;

CERROBEND; ITERATIVE OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; LEAF POSITION; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; NEW APPROACHES; RADIATION FIELD; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT VOLUMES;

DOSIMETRY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0034037496     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598961     Document Type: Article

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