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
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