Does the option to rotate the Elekta Beam modulator MLC during VMAT IMRT delivery confer advantage? - A study of 'parked gaps'

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Webb, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM MODULATOR; COMPUTER MODELS; CONCAVE SHAPE; CONTROL POINT; CONVEX SHAPES; IMRT DELIVERY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; ROTATION ANGLES; ROTATION SPEED; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

MODULATION; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY; ROTATION;

RADIATION PROTECTION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77952404672     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/11/N01     Document Type: Article

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