MicroRT - Small animal conformal irradiator

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4706-4716

  Stojadinovic, S ^a   Low, D A ^a   Hope, A J ^a   Vicic, M ^a   Deasy, J O ^a   Cui, J ^a   Khullar, D ^a   Parikh, P J ^a   Malinowski, K T ^a   Izaguirre, E W ^a   Mutic, S ^a   Grigsby, P W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Microradiation therapy; MicroRT; MicroRTP; Small animal irradiation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IRRADIATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; TUNGSTEN;

CONFORMAL RADIATION THERAPY; MICRORADIATION THERAPY; MICRORT; MICRORTP; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; SMALL ANIMAL; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

RADIATION;

IRIDIUM 192; TUNGSTEN;

ACCURACY; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 36649037794     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2799887     Document Type: Article

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