An application of Bayesian statistical methods to adaptive radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 3849-3858

  Lam, Kwok L ^a   Ten Haken, Randall K ^a   Litzenberg, Dale ^a   Balter, James M ^a   Pollock, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KALMAN FILTERING; PATIENT MONITORING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS;

BAYESIAN STATISTICAL METHODS; PATIENT SETUP; SETUP ADJUSTMENTS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; ERROR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 23744481602     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/16/013     Document Type: Article

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