Segmental and dynamic intensity-modulated radiotherapy delivery techniques for micro-multileaf collimator

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1758-1767

  Agazaryan, Nzhde ^a   Solberg, Timothy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DMLC; IMRT; Leaf sequencing; Radiotherapy; SMLC

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY; INSTRUMENT SCALES; SPECIFICATIONS;

DMLC; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; LEAF SEQUENCING; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SMLC; SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD; TRANSMITTED RADIATION;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; FILM DOSIMETER; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PHYSICS;

EID: 0038710316     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1578791     Document Type: Article

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