Improved leaf sequencing reduces segments or monitor units needed to deliver IMRT using multileaf collimators

Medical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2450-2458

  Langer, M ^a   Thai, V ^a   Papiez, L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Integer programming; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Leaf sequencing

Indexed keywords

RADIOTHERAPY;

BIDIRECTIONAL MOTION; INTENSITY MAPS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; LEAF SEQUENCING; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; REDUCING ALGORITHMS; SPECIAL HARDWARE; STATIC FIELDS;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSE CALCULATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION PHYSICS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0035660956     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1420392     Document Type: Article

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