Feasibility of delivering grid therapy using a multileaf collimator

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 76-82

  Ha, Jonathan K ^a   Zhang, Guowei ^a   Naqvi, Shahid A ^a   Regine, William F ^a   Yu, Cedric X ^a  

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

Author keywords

Grid therapy; Multileaf collimator; Spatial fractionation

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; PHANTOMS;

CONVOLUTION/SUPERPOSITION; DELIVERY TIME; DEPOSITED DOSE; DOSIMETRIC PROPERTIES; GRID THERAPY; LEAF THICKNESS; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; NO LEAKAGES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GRID THERAPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 31044443578     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2140116     Document Type: Article

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