Estimating the dose variation in a volume of interest with explicit consideration of patient geometric variation

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2100-2108

  Lockman, David M ^a   Yan, Di ^a   Wong, John ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose volume histogram; Organ deformation; Organ motion; Setup error; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; PATIENT TREATMENT; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DOSE-VOLUME EFFECTS; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGES; GEOMETRIC VARIATIONS; ORGAN DEFORMATION; ORGAN MOTION; PATIENT SETUP ERRORS; SETUP ERRORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0033805545     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1288683     Document Type: Article

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