Electronic compensation using multileaf collimation for involved field radiation to the neck and mediastinum in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and Hodgkin's lymphoma

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 59-64

  MacDonald, Shelly ^b   Bernard, Shelley ^b   Balogh, Alex ^b   Spencer, David ^b   Sawchuk, Stephen ^a  

^a SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Compensator; MLC; Static IMRT; TLD

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONICS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEDIASTINUM; NECK; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TECHNIQUE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 19544368989     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2004.11.001     Document Type: Article

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