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Poster — Thurs Eve‐36: Use of multileaf collimator as a replacement of physical missing tissue compensator

Abstract

Missing tissue compensators are used to improve dose uniformity for some patients undergoing radiation therapy. Currently, our practice is to machine compensators out of lead alloy plate. Replacing this physical filter with a segmented multileaf collimator (MLC) delivery sequence is beneficial in terms of work flow and delivery efficiency. The purpose of this work is to compare the dose uniformity achieved by fields that are either (A) …

Authors

Liu Z; Ostapiak O; Farrell T; Chow T

Journal

Medical Physics, Vol. 35, No. 7Part2, pp. 3408–3408

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

July 2008

DOI

10.1118/1.2965955

ISSN

0094-2405