Reverse mapping of normal tissue complication probabilities onto dose volume histogram space: The problem of randomness of the dose volume histogram sampling

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3435-3443

  Markov, Krassimir ^a   Schinkel, Colleen ^a,b   Stavreva, Nadia ^a   Stavrev, Pavel ^a   Weldon, Michael ^a,b   Fallone, B Gino ^a,b  

^a CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

DVH; NTCP; Random function generator

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION GENERATORS; MAPPING; RANDOM PROCESSES; TISSUE;

DECREASING FUNCTIONS; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; FUNCTIONAL SPACES; INVERSE TREATMENT; NORMAL TISSUE COMPLICATION PROBABILITIES; NTCP; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BRAIN; DOSE CALCULATION; HISTOGRAM; LIVER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 33748303071     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2198307     Document Type: Article

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