Development and commissioning of a multileaf collimator model in Monte Carlo dose calculations for intensity-modulated radiation therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 770-781

  Jang, Si Young ^a   Vassiliev, Oleg N ^a   Liu, H Helen ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a   Siebers, Jeffrey V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commission MLC model; IMRT; Interleaf air gap; Leaf density; Leaf transmission and leakage; Monte Carlo; Multileaf collimators; Quality assurance; Tongue and groove

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; FENCES; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TRANSMISSIONS;

AIR-GAPS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS; TONGUE AND GROOVE;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33644621832     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2170598     Document Type: Article

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