On cold spots in tumor subvolumes

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1590-1598

  Tomé, Wolfgang A ^a   Fowler, Jack F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Boosting; Cold spots; EUD; IMRT; TCP

Indexed keywords

TUMORS;

BOOSTING; COLD SPOTS; CRITICAL STRUCTURES; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; LINEAR QUADRATIC ALGORITHMS; TUMOR CONTROL PROBABILITY;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; HISTOGRAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TUMOR VOLUME; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035996471     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1485060     Document Type: Article

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