Direct aperture optimization of breast IMRT and the dosimetric impact of respiration motion

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Guowei ^a   Jiang, Ziping ^a   Shepard, David ^a   Zhang, Bin ^a   Yu, Cedric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT APERTURE OPTIMIZATION (DAO); DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; MOTION AMPLITUDES; RESPIRATORY MOTION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREATHING MECHANICS; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIRECT APERTURE OPTIMIZATION; DOSIMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION MONITORING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

EID: 33749621111     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/20/N01     Document Type: Article

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