Implementation of enhanced dynamic wedge in the FOCUS RTP system

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 81-86

  Miften, Moyed ^a   Wiesmeyer, Mark ^a   Beavis, Andy ^b   Takahashi, Kaz ^a   Broad, Steve ^a  

^a FOCUS Development Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dose calculations; EDW; STT; Wedge factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0034045067     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-3947(00)00033-9     Document Type: Article

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