Incorporating organ movements in inverse planning: Assessing dose uncertainties by Bayesian inference

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 121-139

  Unkelbach, J ^a   Oelfke, U ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

BAYES THEOREM; DOSE DISTRIBUTION; ORGAN MOVEMENTS; PATIENT GEOMETRIES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASMS; PROBABILITY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 13244283350     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/1/010     Document Type: Article

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