• DocumentCode
    2855043
  • 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
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    2694
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Chicago, IL
  • ISSN
    1094-687X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6465-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEMBS.2000.901416
  • Filename
    901416