Implications of a high-definition multileaf collimator (HD-MLC) on treatment planning techniques for stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT): A planning study

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Tanyi, James A ^a,b   Summers, Paige A ^c   McCracken, Charles L ^a   Chen, Yiyi ^a   Ku, Li Chung ^a   Fuss, Martin ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HIGH DEFINITION MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG TUMOR; PRESCRIPTION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; RADIOSURGERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 68349086691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-4-22     Document Type: Article

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