« Previous Next » Medical Dosimetry
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 179-183 , Autumn 2006

Mantle fields in the era of dynamic multileaf collimation: Field shaping and electronic tissue compensation

This paper was presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, IL, November 28–December 3, 2004.

Received 8 July 2004 ,Accepted 1 December 2005.

Connors JM , Noordijk EM , Horning SJ . Hodgkin’s lymphoma (Basing the treatment on the evidence) . Hematology Am. Soc. Hematol. Educ. Program . 2001;178–193
Jones D , Hilko R . Measurements of the dose distribution in mantle fields . Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. . 1981;7:1733–1735
Kessaris ND . A dose compensator for mantle fields . Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. . 1978;4:889–894
Cantwell JP , Renner WD , O’Connor TP , et al. A dosimetric comparison of three compensator design methods for the mantle field . Med. Dosim. . 1989;14:257–263
- MEDLINE
Urie M , Fitzgerald TJ , Followill D , et al. Current calibration, treatment, and treatment planning techniques among institutions participating in Children’s Oncology Group . Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. . 2003;55:245–260
Klein EE , Tepper J , Sontag M , et al. Technology assessment of multileaf collimation (A North American users survey) . Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. . 1999;44:705–710
McRoy BW . Off-axis point localization for mantle fields (The St. Jude experience) . Med. Dosim. . 1995;20:279–280
Wilcoxon F . Individual comparisons by ranking methods . Biometrics . 1945;1:80–83