Treatment plan dose distributions for a locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma case with three targets, using MLCs with maximum leaf speeds of 1.0 cm/s (a, b) and 3.5 cm/s (c, d). The 3.5 cm/s MLC ...

Modulated Electron Radiotherapy (MERT) techniques represent an evolution in radiotherapy that harnesses the unique properties of electron beams to achieve highly conformal dose distributions. By ...

A multileaf collimator (MLC) for radiosurgery from Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, Calif., contains up to 120 tungsten slats controlled by miniature motors. The slats block the path of X-rays, ...

The shape of things to come: LAP and OTH Amberg-Weiden are developing a next-generation drive and control unit that promises an order-of-magnitude improvement in the speed and precision of the MLC ...