Evaluation of two methods of predicting MLC leaf positions using EPID measurements

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3174-3182

  Parent, Laure ^a   Seco, Joao ^a,c   Evans, Phil M ^a   Dance, David R ^a   Fielding, Andrew ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FORECASTING; POSITION CONTROL; RANDOM ERRORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

CALIBRATION PARAMETERS; CALIBRATION PROCESS; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; INTENSITY-MODULATED; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; RADIATION TREATMENTS; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; STANDARD DEVIATION;

CALIBRATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COLLIMATOR; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GRAVITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; METHODOLOGY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

EID: 33748312239     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2335490     Document Type: Article

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