Intensity modulated arc deliveries approximated by a large number of fixed gantry position sliding window dynamic multileaf collimator fields

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2359-2365

  MacKenziea, Marc A ^a   Robinson, Donald M ^a  

^a CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamic multileaf collimator; Intensity modulated arc therapy; Intensity modulated radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ITERATIVE METHODS; RADIOTHERAPY;

DEGREES OF COMPLEXITY; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DYNAMIC MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED; INTENSITY-MODULATED ARC THERAPIES; OVERALL TREATMENT TIME;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSIMETRY; FILM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 0036800555     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1508110     Document Type: Article

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