The number of beams in IMRT - Theoretical investigations and implications for single-arc IMRT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-97

  Bortfeld, Thomas ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; AXIS OF ROTATION; BEAM ANGLE; BEAM PROFILES; CHEBYSHEV POLYNOMIALS; CONTINUOUS ROTATION; DEPTH DOSE; DOSE PROFILE; FAN OUT; FINITE DEGREE; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAIN EFFECT; MAXIMUM DEGREE; SMOOTH FUNCTIONS; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

CAVITY RESONATORS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHYSICAL THERAPY; POLYNOMIALS; ROTATION;

CHEBYSHEV APPROXIMATION;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; ROTATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; ROTATION;

EID: 71849084000     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/1/006     Document Type: Article

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