Benchmarking beam alignment for a clinical helical tomotherapy device

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1118-1127

  Balog, John ^a,b   Mackie, T R ^a,b   Pearson, D ^a   Hui, Susanta ^b   Paliwal, Bhudatt ^b   Jeraj, Robert ^a,b  

^a TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam alignment; Commissioning dosimetry; Multileaf collimator; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY; RADIATION DETECTORS;

BEAM ALIGNMENTS; BEAM CONFIGURATION; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; MEGAVOLTAGE; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; TOMOTHERAPY; UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN; VERIFICATION TESTS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

XENON;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DETECTOR; TOMOTHERAPY;

EID: 0038038964     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1576395     Document Type: Article

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