Dose sculpting with generalized equivalent uniform dose

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1387-1396

  Wu, Qiuwen ^a   Djajaputra, David ^b   Liu, Helen H ^c   Dong, Lei ^c   Mohan, Radhe ^c   Wu, Yan ^d  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equivalent uniform dose; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Optimization

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE; GENERALIZED EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE (GEUD); INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; ISODOSE DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMIZATION PARAMETER; PLANNING PARAMETERS;

SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOGRAM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 18844456008     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1897464     Document Type: Article

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