Carbon fiber couch effects on skin dose for volumetric modulated arcs

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2419-2423

  Mihaylov, Ivaylo B ^a,b   Bzdusek, Karl ^a   Kaus, Michael ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon fiber; couch; IMRT; skin dose; VMAT

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; ENERGY POLICY; GRAPHITE FIBERS; PHOTONS;

COUCH; EFFECT OF CARBONS; HIGHER ENERGY PHOTONS; IMRT; SKIN DOSE; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; VMAT;

FIBERS;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 79959562477     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3576106     Document Type: Article

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