Reducing the number of monitor units in multileaf collimator field segmentation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1147-1161

  Kalinowski, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MODULATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOTHERAPY;

INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY (IMRT); MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS (MLC); RADIATION FIELDS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IRRADIATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONITOR; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 16444376514     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/6/008     Document Type: Article

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