Dose volume histogram comparison between ADAC Pinnacle and Nomos Corvus systems for IMRT

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-7

  Ayyangar, K M ^a   Fung, A Y C ^a   Li, S ^a   Pillai, S ^a   Yoe Sein, M M ^b   Zhen, W ^a   Enke, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corvus; Dose volume histogram; Pinnacle

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CURVE FITTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLANNING; TUMORS;

CRITICAL ORGANS; DOSE STRUCTURES; DOSE VOLUME HISTOGRAMS (DVH); FINITE SIZE PENCIL BEAM (FSPB) CONVOLUTION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 18744379790     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03178857     Document Type: Article

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