Graphical treatment simulation and automated collision detection for conformal and stereotactic radiotherapy treatment planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1359-1363

  Tsiakalos, Miltiadis F ^a   Schrebmann, Eduard ^a   Theodorou, Kiki ^a   Kappas, Constantin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

3D conformal radiotherapy; Collision detection; Room's eye view; Treatment planning; Virtual simulation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; KINEMATICS; RADIOTHERAPY;

3D-CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; COLLISION DETECTION; ROOM'S EYE VIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIRTUAL SIMULATIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0034919039     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1381552     Document Type: Article

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