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COLLIMATOR, HIGH VOLTAGE, THERAPEUTIC X-RAY

An X-ray radiation therapy system is a device intended to produce and control X-rays used for radiation therapy. This generic type of device may… Expand
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2015
2015
Quantifying the performance of in vivo portal dosimetry in detecting four types of treatment parameter variations.
PURPOSE To quantify the ability of electronic portal imaging device (EPID) dosimetry used during treatment (in vivo) in detecting… Expand
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2013
2013
Sensitivity of volumetric modulated arc therapy patient specific QA results to multileaf collimator errors and correlation to dose volume histogram based metrics.
PURPOSE This study investigates the impact of systematic multileaf collimator (MLC) positional errors on gamma analysis results… Expand
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
An integral quality monitoring system for real-time verification of intensity modulated radiation therapy.
PURPOSE To develop an independent and on-line beam monitoring system, which can validate the accuracy of segment-by-segment… Expand
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2007
2007
Monte Carlo determination of radiation‐induced cancer risks for prostate patients undergoing intensity‐modulated radiation therapy
The application of intensity‐modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) has enabled the delivery of high doses to the target volume while… Expand
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
On the accuracy and effectiveness of dose reconstruction for tomotherapy.
Dose reconstruction is a process that re-creates the treatment-time dose deposited in a patient provided there is knowledge of… Expand
2001
2001
On the verification of the incident energy fluence in tomotherapy IMRT.
For any radiotherapy verification technique, it is desirable that issues with the accelerator, multileaf collimator and patient… Expand
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Treatment head design for multileaf collimated high-energy electrons.
This paper describes how a conventional treatment head can be modified for use of multileaf collimated electron beams. Automatic… Expand
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1997
Highly Cited
1997
Adaptive modification of treatment planning to minimize the deleterious effects of treatment setup errors.
PURPOSE Using daily setup variation measured from an electronic portal imaging device (EPID), radiation treatment of the… Expand
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Conformal radiation treatment of prostate cancer using inversely-planned intensity-modulated photon beams produced with dynamic multileaf collimation.
PURPOSE To implement radiotherapy with intensity-modulated beams, based on the inverse method of treatment design and using a… Expand
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1992
Highly Cited
1992
A model for computer-controlled delivery of 3-D conformal treatments.
Three-dimensional conformal radiation treatments are highly complex and may comprise a large number of coplanar and noncoplanar… Expand
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