Application of influence diagrams to prostate intensity-modulated radiation therapy plan selection

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1637-1653

  Meyer, Jürgen ^a,c   Phillips, Mark H ^a   Cho, Paul S ^a   Kalet, Ira ^a,b   Doctor, Jason N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; PROBABILITY; PROSTHETICS; RADIOTHERAPY; SIMULATED ANNEALING; STATISTICS;

ORGAN-AT-RISK (OAR); PLANNING TARGET VOLUME (PTV);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DOSIMETRY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE CANCER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AGED; CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2542433249     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/9/004     Document Type: Article

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