A volumetric-modulated arc therapy using sub-conformal dynamic arc with a monotonic dynamic multileaf collimator modulation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 6395-6417

  Zygmanski, Piotr ^a   Högele, Wolfgang ^b   Cormack, Robert ^a   Chin, Lee ^a   Löschel, Rainer ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; ROTATION; TARGETS;

AXIS OF ROTATIONS; CONTROL POINTS; DOSE DELIVERIES; DOSE DEPOSITIONS; DOSIMETRIC PROPERTIES; DYNAMIC MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; INVERSE PLANNING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ORGANS AT RISKS; PHYSICAL MEANINGS; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES; SPECIFIC GEOMETRIES; UNKNOWN PARAMETERS;

MODULATION;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION HAZARD;

HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM; ROTATION;

EID: 58149236918     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/22/009     Document Type: Article

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