Improvements in dose accuracy delivered with static-MLC IMRT on an integrated linear accelerator control system

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2456-2462

  Li, Ji ^a   Wiersma, Rodney D ^a   Stepaniak, Christopher J ^a   Farrey, Karl J ^a   Al Hallaq, Hania A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

dose rate dependence; intensity modulated radiotherapy; over shoot; step and shoot; TrueBeam

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONTROLLERS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSE RATE DEPENDENCE; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; OVER-SHOOT; STEP-AND-SHOOT; TRUEBEAM;

LINEAR ACCELERATORS;

EID: 84861586443     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3701778     Document Type: Article

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