Helical tomotherapy shielding calculation for an existing LINAC treatment room: Sample calculation and cautions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 21, 2006, Pages

  Wu, Chuan ^a   Guo, Fanqing ^a   Purdy, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATA REDUCTION; DRUG THERAPY; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIATION EFFECTS;

HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY SHIELDING CALCULATIONS; MEASUREMENT DATA; PATIENT LOAD; TOMOTHERAPY ROTATIONAL BEAM DELIVERY GEOMETRY;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY;

EID: 33751181450     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/21/N02     Document Type: Article

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