Temporo-spatial IMRT optimization: Concepts, implementation and initial results

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2779-2798

  Trofimov, Alexei ^a   Rietzel, Eike ^a   Lu, Hsiao Ming ^a   Martin, Benjamin ^b   Jiang, Steve ^a   Chen, George T Y ^a   Bortfeld, Thomas ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; MAPPING; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PROBABILITY; RESPIRATORS; RESPIRATORY THERAPY; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

DOSE CONFORMALITY; ORGAN MOTION; VOXELS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOSIMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 20044385935     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/12/004     Document Type: Article

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