The MLC tongue-and-groove effect on IMRT dose distributions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1039-1060

  Deng, J ^a   Pawlicki, T ^a   Chen, Y ^a   Li, J ^a   Jiang, S B ^a   Ma, C M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; PATIENT TREATMENT;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS;

MEDICINE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; MODULATION; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOTHERAPY;

BONE NEOPLASMS; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 0035055467     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/46/4/310     Document Type: Article

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