A new approach in dose measurement and error analysis for narrow photon beams (beamlets) shaped by different multileaf collimators using a small detector

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2020-2032

  Li, Shidong ^a   Rashid, Abdul ^a   He, Shanjin ^a   Djajaputra, David ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamlet; Dose measurement; Intensity modulation radiotherapy (IMRT); Narrow beam; Small fields; Stereotactic

Indexed keywords

DIODES; ERRORS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; MODULATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

BEAMLETS; DOSE MEASUREMENT; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; NARROW BEAMS; SMALL FIELDS; STEREOTACTIC;

X RAY DETECTORS;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; INTENSITY MODULATION RADIOTHERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MICROMULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; PHANTOM; PHOTON BEAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOTHERAPY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

EID: 3142711454     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1760191     Document Type: Article

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