Medical Dosimetry
Volume 36, Issue 3 , Pages 255-263 , Autumn 2011

Monitor Unit Checking in Heterogeneous Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy Treatment Planning

  • Patrick D. Higgins, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Therapeutic Radiology–Radiation Oncology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Patrick D. Higgins, Ph.D., Department of Therapeutic Radiology–Radiation Oncology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Mayo Mail Code 494, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0110
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  • Troy Adolfson, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Therapeutic Radiology–Radiation Oncology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN
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  • L. Chinsoo Cho, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Therapeutic Radiology–Radiation Oncology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN
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  • Rishik Saxena, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN

Received 7 December 2009 ,Accepted 27 April 2010.

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PII: S0958-3947(10)00066-X

doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2010.04.003

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 36, Issue 3 , Pages 255-263 , Autumn 2011

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