Characterization of dose impact on IMRT and VMAT from couch attenuation for two Varian couches

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 23-31

  Li, Heng ^a   Lee, Andrew K ^a   Johnson, Jennifer L ^a   Zhu, Ronald X ^a   Kudchadker, Rajat J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Couch attenuation; Dosimetric impact; MV photon radiotherapy; QA

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052169643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v12i3.3471     Document Type: Article

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