Incorporating organ movements in IMRT treatment planning for prostate cancer: Minimizing uncertainties in the inverse planning process

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2471-2483

  Unkelbach, Jan ^a   Oelfke, Uwe ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dose uncertainties; Inverse planning; Organ movements; Probability distributions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; PATIENT TREATMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UROLOGY;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE UNCERTAINTIES; EXPECTATION VALUES; INVERSE PLANNING; ORGAN MOVEMENTS; PATIENT GEOMETRIES; SINGLE SNAPSHOTS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); ORGAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 23944517746     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1929167     Document Type: Article

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