Leaf transmission reduction using moving jaws for dynamic MLC IMRT

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3674-3687

  Schmidhalter, D ^a,b   Fix, M K ^a   Niederer, P ^b   Mini, R ^a   Manser, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Intensity modulated radio therapy (IMRT); Multileaf collimator (MLC); Transmission

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; PHANTOMS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; INTENSITY-MODULATED; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; TRANSMISSION REDUCTION; TRANSMITTED RADIATION; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

TRANSMISSIONS;

ARTICLE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IRRADIATION; JAW; MONITOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 34548309114     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2768864     Document Type: Article

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