Evaluation of the interplay effect when using RapidArc to treat targets moving in the craniocaudal or right-left direction

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-11

  Court, Laurence ^a   Wagar, Matthew ^a   Berbeco, Ross ^a   Reisner, Adam ^a   Winey, Brian ^a   Schofield, Debbie ^a   Ionascu, Dan ^a   Allen, Aaron M ^a,b   Popple, Richard ^c   Lingos, Tania ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Interplay effect; RapidArc; Respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IRRADIATION; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MOTION PICTURES; PHANTOMS; PIXELS; TUMORS;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSIMETRIC ERRORS; INTERPLAY EFFECT; ION CHAMBER ARRAYS; PATIENT MOTIONS; RAPIDARC; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; TARGET MOTIONS;

ERRORS;

EID: 73649144528     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3263614     Document Type: Article

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