Peripheral doses in CyberKnife radiosurgery

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1770-1779

  Petti, Paula L ^a   Chuang, Cynthia F ^a   Smith, Vernon ^a   Larson, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; PHANTOMS;

ADDITIONAL EXPERIMENTS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LEAKAGE RADIATION; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SCATTERED RADIATIONS; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; COLLIMATOR; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; ROBOTICS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; THORAX; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 33744809043     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2198173     Document Type: Article

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