Collimator-Based Tracking with an Add-On Multileaf Collimator Modification of a commercial collimator system for realtime applications /

• Main Author: Böhler, Andreas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: BestMedDiss
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiotherapy.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.

In this thesis, a tracking system was developed by modifying an add-on collimator, the Siemens Moduleaf, for realtime applications in radiotherapy. As the add-on collimator works almost completely autonomously of the linear accelerator (LinAc), no modifications to the latter were necessary. The adap...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Literature Overview
• 3 Hypothesis & Goals
• 4 Materials & Methods
• 5 Results
• 6 Discussion
• 7 Conclusions.