On the verification of the incident energy fluence in tomotherapy IMRT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2953-2965

  Kapatoes, J M ^a,b   Olivera, G H ^a,b   Ruchala, K J ^a,b   Mackie, T R ^a,b  

^a TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY;

INCIDENT ENERGY FLUENCE; ROTATIONAL DELIVERY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; LATENT PERIOD; MODULATION; PATIENT; PHANTOM; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIOTHERAPY; ROTATION; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0034753253     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/46/11/313     Document Type: Article

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