Assessing the Difference between Planned and Delivered Intensity-modulated Radiotherapy Dose Distributions based on Radiobiological Measures

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 529-538

  Mavroidis, P ^a,b   Ferreira, B C ^a   Papanikolaou, N ^c   Svensson, R ^a   Kappas, C ^b   Lind, B K ^a   Brahme, A ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologically effective uniform dose; complication free cure; conformal radiotherapy; IMRT; radiobiological objectives; set up uncertainties; treatment verification

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FILM; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM; SMALL INTESTINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 33746450909     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2006.04.007     Document Type: Article

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