Improvement of dose distributions in abutment regions of intensity modulated radiation therapy and electron fields

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 38-44

  Dogan, Nesrin ^a   Leybovich, Leonid B ^a   Sethi, Anil ^a   Emami, Bahman ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abutment regions; Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT); Photon electron matching

Indexed keywords

ABUTMENTS (BRIDGE); BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRON BEAMS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY;

CLOSE PROXIMITY; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; INHOMOGENEITIES; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

ELECTRONS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0036147631     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1428757     Document Type: Article

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