Delivery of modulated electron beams with conventional photon multi-leaf collimators

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 327-339

  Klein, Eric E ^a   Mamalui Hunter, Maria ^a   Low, Daniel A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON GUNS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MODULATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; CLINICAL TREATMENTS; CLINICAL USES; COLLIMATION SYSTEMS; CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMAS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRON BEAM RADIOTHERAPIES; MODULATED ELECTRON RADIOTHERAPIES; MONTE CARLO; OPTIMAL DOSES; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; ORGANS AT RISKS; PLANNING SYSTEMS; TUMOR TREATMENTS;

ELECTRONS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER THERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON THERAPY; ENERGY; MASTECTOMY; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MODULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCALP; SKIN LYMPHOMA; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR;

BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; ELECTRONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; THORACIC WALL;

EID: 58149260330     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/2/010     Document Type: Article

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