Peripheral dose from uniform dynamic multileaf collimation fields: Implications for sliding window intensity-modulated radiotherapy

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 79, Issue 940, 2006, Pages 331-335

  Sharma, D S ^a   Animesh, ^b   Deshpande, S S ^a   Phurailatpam, R D ^c   Deshpande, D D ^a   Shrivastava, S K ^a   Dinshaw, K A ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^b Kirloskar Theratronics Pvt Limited   (India)

^c ACTREC   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; X RAY;

HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 33645763910     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/16208090     Document Type: Article

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