Title :
Dosimetric evaluation with/without a flattening filter in stereotactic radiosurgery
Author :
Suh, Tae-Suk ; Cho, Kwang-Hwan ; Kim, Hoi-Nam ; Choe, Bo-Young ; Lee, Hyoung-Koo ; Shinn, Kyung-Sub
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Catholic Univ. of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
The purpose of this work is to evaluate dosimetric aspects of non-flattening filter based stereotactic mode and normal treatment mode, and to compare dose distribution due to the possible combination of flattening filter and wedge
Keywords :
dosimetry; radiation therapy; surgery; dose distribution; dosimetric evaluation; filter based stereotactic mode; flattening filter; normal treatment mode; stereotactic radiosurgery; wedge; Collimators; Diodes; Imaging phantoms; Lesions; Linear accelerators; Medical treatment; Nonlinear filters; Performance evaluation; Safety; Size measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6465-1
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2000.901416
