Automatic online adaptive radiation therapy techniques for targets with significant shape change: A feasibility study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2493-2501

  Court, Laurence E ^a   Tishler, Roy B ^a   Petit, Joshua ^a   Cormack, Robert ^a   Chin, Lee ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

MONITOR UNITS (MU); MULTI-LEAF COLLIMATOR (MLC); ONLINE ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BODY SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33646477588     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/10/009     Document Type: Article

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