Evaluation of delivered monitor unit accuracy of gated step-and-shoot IMRT using a two-dimensional detector array

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1146-1151

  Cheong, Kwang Ho ^a,b   Kang, Sei Kwon ^a   Lee, Meyeon ^a   Kim, Su Ssan ^a   Park, Soah ^a   Hwang, Tae Jin ^a   Kim, Kyoung Ju ^a   Oh, Do Hoon ^a   Bae, Hoonsik ^a   Suh, Tae Suk ^b  

^a Hallym University   (South Korea)

^b The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gated IMRT; MatriXX; RPM (real time position management); Step and shoot; Two dimensional detector array

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

GATED IMRT; MATRIXX; REAL TIME; STEP-AND-SHOOT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL DETECTORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 77749327435     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3310806     Document Type: Article

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