Conformality and homogeneity of dose distributions in interstitial implants at idealized target volumes: A comparison between the Paris and dose-point optimized systems

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 103-111

  Major, Tibor ^a   Polgár, Csaba ^a   Fodor, János ^a   Somogyi, András ^a   Németh, György ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Conformality; High dose rate; Homogeneity; Interstitial implants; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CATHETER; FRANCE; GEOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; IMPLANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; VOLUMETRY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 0036166008     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(01)00447-9     Document Type: Article

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