Physical and dosimetric characteristic of high-definition multileaf collimator (HDMLC) for SRS and IMRT

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 142-160

  Sharma, Dayananda Shamurailatpam ^a   Dongre, Prabhakar M ^b   Mhatre, Vaibav ^a   Heigrujam, Malhotra ^a  

^a Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI   (India)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; IMRT; MLC; QA; SRS

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052153229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v12i3.3475     Document Type: Article

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