Dosimetric characterization of a multileaf collimator for a new four-dimensional image-guided radiotherapy system with a gimbaled x-ray head, MHI-TM2000

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4684-4691

  Nakamura, Mitsuhiro ^a   Sawada, Akira ^a   Ishihara, Yoshitomo ^a   Takayama, Kenji ^a   Mizowaki, Takashi ^a   Kaneko, Shuji ^b   Yamashita, Mikiko ^c   Tanabe, Hiroaki ^c   Kokubo, Masaki ^c   Hiraoka, Masahiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

dosimetric characteristics; intensity modulated radiotherapy; multileaf collimator; pursuing irradiation

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; ROTATION;

DOSIMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; RADIATION LEAKAGES; RADIUS OF CURVATURE; ROTATIONAL ANGLE; WATER EQUIVALENT PHANTOMS;

X RAYS;

DEVICES; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; ROTATION;

RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; ROTATION;

EID: 77956313176     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3480510     Document Type: Article

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