A revision of the γ-evaluation concept for the comparison of dose distributions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 3543-3553

  Bakai, Annemarie ^a   Alber, Markus ^a   Nüsslin, Fridtjof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION;

COLLIMATION ERRORS;

DOSIMETRY;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOGRAM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; REFERENCE VALUE; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0242606142     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/21/006     Document Type: Article

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