Dose variations with varying calculation grid size in head and neck IMRT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 4841-4856

  Chung, Heeteak ^a   Jin, Hosang ^a   Palta, Jatinder ^a   Suh, Tae Suk ^b   Kim, Siyong ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRID SIZES; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY (IMRT); RADIOCHROMIC FILM; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS (TPS);

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; DOSIMETERS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY; THIN FILMS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

WATER;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EQUIPMENT; HEAD; HISTOGRAM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NECK; PHANTOM; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOBIOLOGY; SOLID; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 33748942799     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/19/008     Document Type: Article

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