Implementation of biologically conformal radiation therapy (BCRT) in an algorithmic segmentation-based inverse planning approach

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  Vanderstraeten, Barbara ^a,b   De Gersem, Werner ^b   Duthoy, Wim ^b   De Neve, Wilfried ^b   Thierens, Hubert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CONFORMATIONS; DOSIMETRY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; ONCOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLANNING; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

BIOLOGICAL SIGNAL INTENSITY PATTERN; BIOLOGICALLY CONFORMAL RADIATION THERAPY (BCRT); CONTRALATERAL PAROTID GLAND; OROPHARYNGEAL CANCER PATIENT;

RADIOTHERAPY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PAROTID GLAND; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOBIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 33746853070     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/16/N02     Document Type: Article

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