EUD-based radiotherapy treatment plan evaluation: Incorporating physical and Monte Carlo statistical dose uncertainties

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 4097-4109

  Cranmer Sargison, G ^a   Zavgorodni, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG DOSAGE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM ERRORS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE; TUMORS;

DOSE UNCERTAINTIES; EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE (EUD); SPATIAL DOSE HETEROGENEITY; SURVIVAL FRACTION (SF);

RADIOTHERAPY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL TIME;

BODY BURDEN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 24044512671     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/17/013     Document Type: Article

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