Inverse planning - A comparative intersystem and interpatient constraint study

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 182, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 473-480

  Georg, Dietmar ^a   Kroupa, Bernhard ^b   Georg, Petra ^b   Winkler, Peter ^b   Bogner, Joachim ^b   Dieckmann, Karin ^b   Pötter, Richard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dose constraints; Dose volume constraints; IMRT; Inverse planning

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION HAZARD; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GLOMUS TUMOR; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33747067195     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-006-1531-y     Document Type: Article

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