Use of deformed intensity distributions for on-line modification of image-guided IMRT to account for interfractional anatomic changes

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1258-1266

  Mohan, Radhe ^a   Zhang, Xiaodong ^a   Wang, He ^a   Kang, Yixiu ^a   Wang, Xiaochun ^a   Liu, Helen ^a   Ang, K Kian ^a   Kuban, Deborah ^a   Dong, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Image guided radiotherapy; IMRT; Organ motion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

IMAGE-GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY (IMRT); ON-LINE MODIFICATION;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION BEAM;

ALGORITHMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 14844283770     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.11.033     Document Type: Article

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