Exploring the limits of spatial resolution in radiation dose delivery

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1823-1831

  Otto, Karl ^a   Clark, Brenda G ^a   Huntzinger, Calvin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal radiation therapy; Multileaf collimator; Spatial

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; LINEAR SYSTEMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

CONFORMAL RADIATION THERAPY; DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS; DIFFERENT TREATMENTS; INTENSITY-MODULATED; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DOMAINS;

IMAGE RESOLUTION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DEVICE; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 0036703723     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1495865     Document Type: Article

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