Verification of a pencil beam based treatment planning system: Output factors for open photon beams shaped with MLC or blocks

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 1999, Pages

  Hansson, Helena ^a   Björk, Peter ^b   Knöös, Tommy ^b   Nilsson, Per ^b  

^a Dept of Med Phys and Bioeng ^*  (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 18144453521     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/9/402     Document Type: Article

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