EUD-based margin selection in the presence of set-up uncertainties

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 849-859

  Song, William ^a,b   Dunscombe, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; Dose volume histogram; Equivalent uniform dose; Plan optimization; Set up error

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; GEOMETRY; GRAPHIC METHODS; RANDOM ERRORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; DIRECTIONAL SENSITIVITY; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE; GEOMETRIC UNCERTAINTIES; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS; SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTIES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; ERROR; GEOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 1942516518     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1668552     Document Type: Article

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