An examination of the number of required apertures for step-and-shoot IMRT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 5653-5663

  Jiang, Z ^a   Earl, M A ^a   Zhang, G W ^a   Yu, C X ^a   Shepard, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT TREATMENT;

DIRECT APERTURE OPTIMIZATION (DAO);

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; HEAD; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NECK; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 28644445625     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/23/017     Document Type: Article

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