Dosimetric characteristics of Novalis Tx system with high definition multileaf collimator

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4460-4463

  Chang, Zheng ^a   Wang, Zhiheng ^a   Wu, Q Jackie ^a   Yan, Hui ^a   Bowsher, Jim ^a   Zhang, Junan ^a   Yin, Fang Fang ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

High definition multileaf collimator; Novalis Tx system; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

CONFORMAL RADIATIONS; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIOSURGERY; IRRADIATION TEST; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT UNITS; TX SYSTEM;

DOSIMETRY;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DIODE; DOSIMETRY; HIGH DEFINITION MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; IRRADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 52949111474     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2977668     Document Type: Article

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