Modelling the dosimetric consequences of organ motion at CT imaging on radiotherapy treatment planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1369-1377

  Booth, Jeremy T ^a,b,c   Zavgorodni, Sergei F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

VARIATION KERNELS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MODEL; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORGAN; POPULATION; POSITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035020208     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/46/5/303     Document Type: Article

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