Dependence of fluence errors in dynamic IMRT on leaf-positional errors varying with time and leaf number

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2736-2749

  Zygmanski, Piotr ^a   Kung, Jong H ^a   Jiang, Steve B ^a   Chin, Lee ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; FITS AND TOLERANCES; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DOSE CALCULATION; INHOMOGENEITIES; INVERSE TREATMENT; MECHANICAL PRECISION; POSITIONAL ERRORS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TRUNCATED NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

RANDOM ERRORS;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0142057574     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1598674     Document Type: Article

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