A geometrically based method of step and shoot stereotactic radiosurgery with a miniature multileaf collimator

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 3263-3276

  St John, Theodore J ^a   Wagner, Thomas H ^b   Bova, Francis J ^a   Friedman, William A ^a   Meeks, Sanford L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER ORLANDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECISION MAKING; INVERSE KINEMATICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTIMIZATION;

FLUENCE DISTRIBUTIONS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIOSURGERY (IMRS); INTENSITY MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY (IMRT); INTENSITY MODULATION; INVERSE PLANNING METHODS; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY (SRS);

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; GEOMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 22244491020     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/14/005     Document Type: Article

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