Medical Dosimetry
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 202-206 , Autumn 2009

The Performance of Multileaf Collimators Evaluated by the Stripe Test

Preliminary results of this paper were presented as a poster at ESTRO 26, Barcelona, Spain, September 2007.

Received 3 June 2008 ,Accepted 21 August 2008.

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PII: S0958-3947(08)00131-3

doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2008.08.005

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 202-206 , Autumn 2009

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