Leakage of the Siemens 160 MLC multileaf collimator on a dual energy linear accelerator

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Klüter, Sebastian ^a   Sroka Perez, Gabriele ^a   Schubert, Kai ^a   Debus, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM-STEERING; CLINICAL USE; DOSIMETRIC PROPERTIES; DUAL ENERGY; FOCAL SPOT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; LEAKAGE PERFORMANCE; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; PHOTON ENERGY; SIEMENS;

LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PHYSICAL THERAPY;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 79551680375     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/2/N02     Document Type: Article

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