Dosimetric effects of multileaf collimator leaf width on intensity-modulated radiotherapy for head and neck cancer

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Hong, Chae Seon ^a   Ju, Sang Gyu ^a   Kim, Minkyu ^a   Kim, Jung In ^b   Kim, Jin Man ^a   Suh, Tae Suk ^c   Han, Youngyih ^a   Ahn, Yong Chan ^a   Choi, Doo Ho ^a   Nam, Heerim ^a   Park, Hee Chul ^b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

head and neck cancer; IMRT; leaf width; multileaf collimator; VMAT

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISEASES; EFFICIENCY; ERROR ANALYSIS; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; IMRT; LEAF WIDTH; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; VMAT;

DOSIMETRY;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFORMITY INDEX; DOSIMETRY; FILM DOSIMETER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HOMOGENEITY INDEX; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; ORGANS AT RISK; PLANNING TARGET VOLUME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD; STEP AND SHOOT INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84894495671     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4860155     Document Type: Article

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