On the making of sharp longitudinal dose profiles with helical tomotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 6497-6510

  Kissick, Michael W ^a   Flynn, Ryan T ^a   Westerly, David C ^a   Mackie, Thomas Rockwell ^a,b   Hoban, Peter W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GIBBS FREE ENERGY; MATLAB; OPTIMIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY MACHINE; ORGAN AT RISK (OAR); PLANNING TREATMENT VOLUME (PTV); SHARP LONGITUDINAL DOSE PROFILES;

DOSIMETERS;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; FALLOUT; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; OSCILLOMETRY; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36048959319     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/21/011     Document Type: Article

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