Improvement of field matching in segmented-field electron conformal therapy using a variable-SCD applicator

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2459-2481

  Richert, John D ^a   Hogstrom, Kenneth R ^a,b   Fields, Robert S ^b   Matthews II, Kenneth L ^a   Boyd, Robert A ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPLICATORS; COULOMB BLOCKADE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

COULOMB SCATTERING; DOSE HOMOGENEITY; ELECTRON CONFORMAL THERAPY; SOURCE-TO-COLLIMATOR DISTANCES (SCD);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

POLYSTYRENE; WATER;

ACCURACY; AIR; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON THERAPY; ENERGY; HUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; RECURRENT CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 34249030615     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/9/009     Document Type: Article

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