Improving IMRT delivery efficiency using intensity limits during inverse planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1234-1245

  Coselmon, Martha M ^a   Moran, Jean M ^a   Radawski, Jeffrey D ^a   Fraass, Benedick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DOSIMETRY; MODULATION; UROLOGY;

BEAM MODULATION; COMPLICATED GEOMETRY; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; GEOMETRICAL UNCERTAINTY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; INVERSE PLANNING; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; NUMBER OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM;

EFFICIENCY;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GEOMETRY; HEAD; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; NECK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE; SAFETY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 18844393066     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1895545     Document Type: Article

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