Measurement of beam-axis displacement from the isocenter during three-dimensional conformal radiosurgery with a micro-multileaf collimator

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-48

  Kunieda, Etsuo ^a   Kawaguchi, Osamu ^a   Saitoh, Hidetoshi ^a,b   Fujisaki, Tatsuya ^a,c   Takeda, Atsuya ^a   Kawase, Takatsugu ^a   Deloar, Hossain M ^a,d   Shigematsu, Naoyuki ^a   Kubo, Atsushi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c IBARAKI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Beam's eye monitor; Linear accelerator; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0842324841     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2003.11.008     Document Type: Article

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