Tracking the dose distribution in radiation therapy by accounting for variable anatomy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 791-805

  Schaly, B ^a,b   Kempe, J A ^b   Bauman, G S ^a,b   Battista, J J ^a,b   Van Dyk, Jake ^a,b  

^a LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE;

DOSE DISTRIBUTION; PROSTATE;

MEDICINE;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BODY REGIONS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUM; SEMINAL VESICLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1542610649     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/5/010     Document Type: Article

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