Rotational IMRT delivery using a digital linear accelerator in very high dose rate 'burst mode'

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1931-1946

  Salter, Bill J ^a   Sarkar, Vikren ^a   Wang, Brian ^a   Shukla, Himanshu ^b   Szegedi, Martin ^a   Rassiah Szegedi, Prema ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Oncology Care Systems Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURST MODE; CONTINUOUS MODE; DELIVERY TIME; HIGH DOSE RATE; IMRT DELIVERY; MACHINE FAULTS; MONITOR UNITS; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; NEW SYSTEM; SEGMENT SHAPE; SHORT ARC; SIEMENS; SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS; TREATMENT BEAMS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANS; TUMOR VOLUMES; VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS;

LINEAR ACCELERATORS;

DOSIMETRY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROTATION;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION;

EID: 79952963307     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/7/002     Document Type: Article

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