Improvement in clinical step and shoot intensity modulated radiation therapy delivery accuracy on an integrated linear accelerator control system

Practical Radiation Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-49

  Agnew, C E ^a   Irvine, D M ^a   Hounsell, A R ^a,b   McGarry, C K ^a,b  

^a ROYAL GROUP OF HOSPITALS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROL SYSTEM; GAMMA RADIATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; PELVIS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DEVICES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSE;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84890876870     PISSN: 18798500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2013.07.003     Document Type: Article

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