Independent dosimetric calculation with inclusion of head scatter and MLC transmission for IMRT

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2937-2947

  Yang, Y ^a   Xing, L ^a   Li, J G ^b   Palta, J ^b   Chen, Y ^c   Luxton, Gary ^a   Boyer, A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose verification; IMRT; MU calculation; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

DOSE CONTRIBUTION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE VERIFICATION; DYNAMIC MODULATION; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED; SCATTER DISTRIBUTION; SIMPLIFIED ALGORITHMS;

TRANSMISSIONS;

ALGORITHM; BEAM THERAPY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOSIMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CORVUS;

EID: 0344393794     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1617391     Document Type: Conference Paper

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