Design of adaptive treatment margins for non-negligible measurement uncertainty: Application to ultrasound-guided prostate radiation therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 69-86

  Keller, H ^a   Tome W ^a   Ritter, M A ^a   Mackie, T R ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ADAPTIVE TREATMENT MARGINS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0345832289     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/1/005     Document Type: Article

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