The theoretical benefit of beam fringe compensation and field size reduction for iso-normal tissue complication probability dose escalation in radiotherapy of lung cancer

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1086-1095

  Engelsman, Martijn ^a   Remeijer, Peter ^a   van Herk, Marcel ^a   Mijnheer, Ben ^a   Damen, Eugène ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; Dose escalation; IMRT; Lung tumor; Tumor control probability

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RADIOTHERAPY; RANDOM ERRORS; SIZE DETERMINATION; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TUMORS;

CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; DOSE ESCALATION; IMRT; LUNG TUMOR; TUMOR CONTROL PROBABILITY;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; HISTOGRAM; LUNG CANCER; MOTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0038038988     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1573208     Document Type: Article

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