Quality assurance of the multileaf collimator with helical tomotherapy: Design and implementation

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2949-2956

  Sarkar, Vikren ^a   Lin, Lan ^a   Shi, Chengyu ^a   Papanikolaou, Niko ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

MLC; Pattern; Procedure; QA; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; PATTERN; PROCEDURE; SOFTWARE TOOLKITS; TOMOTHERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TREATMENT PLANNING; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 34347373699     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2748105     Document Type: Article

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