The impact of fluctuations in intensity patterns on the number of monitor units and the quality and accuracy of intensity modulated radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1226-1237

  Mohan, Radhe ^a,b   Arnfield, Mark ^a,b   Tong, Shidong ^a,b   Wu, Qiuwen ^a,b   Siebers, Jeffrey ^a,b  

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

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic multileaf collimation; Intensity modulated radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; TRANSMISSIONS;

AMPLITUDE OF FLUCTUATIONS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DYNAMIC MULTILEAF COLLIMATION; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY PATTERNS; INTENSITY-MODULATED; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY;

MUS;

EID: 0034085523     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.599000     Document Type: Article

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