Use of peripheral dose data from uniform dynamic multileaf collimation fields to estimate out-of-field organ dose in patients treated employing sliding window intensity-modulated radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2987-2995

  Sharma, Shamurailatpam Dayananda ^a   Upreti, Ritu Raj ^a   Deshpande, Deepak Dattatray ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS;

CERVICAL CANCER; DYNAMIC MULTILEAF COLLIMATION; ORGAN DOSES; PLASTIC WATER;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MEASUREMENT; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

HUMANS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 33744811157     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/11/020     Document Type: Article

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