Open AccessA method of high-resolution radiotherapy delivery fluences with a pair of fields with orthogonal collimator settings: A study on ten head-and-neck cancer patients
Author(s) -
Stipe Galić,
Marin Kovačević,
Ivan Lasić,
Hrvoje Brkić,
Dario Faj
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of medical physics/journal of medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1998-3913
pISSN - 0971-6203
DOI - 10.4103/jmp.jmp_51_19
Subject(s) - multileaf collimator , collimator , linear particle accelerator , truebeam , monte carlo method , radiation therapy , collimated light , image guided radiation therapy , computer science , optics , medical physics , nuclear medicine , physics , mathematics , beam (structure) , medicine , radiology , laser , statistics
of dual-layer multileaf collimator (MLC) radiotherapy linear accelerators into clinical practice is an important development in advanced external beam radiotherapy. A method of delivering comparable high-resolution fluences with a single-layer MLC is presented.