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ArticleJournal of medical physics

Impact of Multileaf Collimator Configuration Parameters on the Dosimetric Accuracy of 6-MV Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy Treatment Plans.

Nick Petersen, David Perrin, Wayne Newhauser, Rui Zhang

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Article in Journal of medical physics. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Nick PetersenDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
David PerrinMary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
Wayne NewhauserDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
Rui ZhangDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.

Funding

Systematic evaluation of predicted outcomes and costs to inform clinical and policy decision making for emerging postmastectomy radiotherapiesK22CA204464 · NCI · LOUISIANA STATE UNIV A&M COL BATON ROUGE · PI ZHANG, RUI · 2016 to 2018
$580k
NCI NIH HHS K22 CA204464
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of selected configuration parameters that govern multileaf collimator (MLC) transmission and rounded leaf offset in a commercial treatment planning system (TPS) (Pinnacle

Indexed as

Dosimetric accuracyintensity-modulated radiation therapyleaf transmissionmultileaf collimatorrounded leaf offsettreatment planning system

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PMID28974861
PMCPMC5618462

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