title: Assessment of the acceptability of the Elekta multileaf collimator (MLC) within the Corvus planning system for static and dynamic delivery of intensity modulated beams (IMBs).
abstract: The sliding window technique used for static and dynamic segmentation of intensity modulated beams is evaluated. Dynamic delivery is preferred since the resulting distributions correspond better with the calculated distributions, the treatment beam is used more efficiently and the delivery is less sensitive to small variations in the accuracy of the multileaf collimator (MLC).
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiotherapy, Medical Physics, Oncology Center, Academic Hospital, Free University Brussels (AZ-VUB), Laarbeeklaan 101, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Nadine
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Linthout
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Verellen
authors.forename: Swana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Van Acker
authors.forename: Iwein
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Van de Vondel
authors.forename: Luc
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Coppens
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Storme
mesh_terms: D011880:Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D020266:Radiotherapy, Conformal / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software