Nontumor integral dose variation in conventional radiotherapy treatment planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2065-2071

  D'Souzab, Warren D ^a   Rosen, Isaac I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UROLOGY;

ANATOMICAL REGIONS; BEAM DIRECTION; BEAM ORIENTATION; ENERGY IMPARTED; FRACTIONAL ENERGY; HIGHER ENERGY BEAMS; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

TUMORS;

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION HAZARD; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0041888220     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1591991     Document Type: Conference Paper

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