'A finite size pencil beam for IMRT dose optimization' - A simpler analytical function for the finite size pencil beam kernel

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Lin, Hui ^a   Wu, Yican ^a   Chen, Yixue ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLASMA PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FINITE SIZE PENCIL BEAM KERNEL; FITTING DEPTH-DOSE CURVES; SEMI-INFINITE FIELDS;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE;

MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 33644664034     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/6/L01     Document Type: Article

References (2)

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2. De Gersem W, Claus F, DeWagter C, VanDuyse B and De Neve W 2001 Leaf position optimization for step-and-shoot IMRT Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 51 1371-88