Estimation of the delivered patient dose in lung IMRT treatment based on deformable registration of 4D-CT data and Monte Carlo simulations

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2763-2779

  Flampouri, Stella ^a,b   Jiang, Steve B ^a   Sharp, Greg C ^a   Wolfgang, John ^a   Patel, Abhijit A ^a   Choi, Noah C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL LABORATORIES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PULMONARY DISEASES; RESPIRATORY THERAPY; TUMORS;

COMMERCIAL TREATMENTS; IMRT TREATMENTS; PATIENT DOSES; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BEAM THERAPY; BREATHING MECHANICS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG CANCER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33744804817     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/11/006     Document Type: Article

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