Random and systematic beam modulator errors in dynamic intensity modulated radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1109-1121

  Parsai, Homayon ^a,b   Cho, Paul S ^a   Phillips, Mark H ^a   Giansiracusa, Robert S ^a   Axen, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TUMORS;

MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS (MLC);

DOSIMETRY;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRAIN STEM; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HISTOGRAM; MENINGIOMA; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTIC CHIASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZATION;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MENINGIOMA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0038811606     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/9/302     Document Type: Article

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