The use of spatial dose gradients and probability density function to evaluate the effect of internal organ motion for prostate IMRT treatment planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1469-1484

  Jiang, Runqing ^a,b   Barnett, Rob B ^a,b   Chow, James C L ^b,c   Chen, Jeff Z Y ^b  

^a Medical Physics Department   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIOTHERAPY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

ANGULAR DISPLACEMENT; ANTERIOR-POSTERIOR; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY (IMRT); INTERNAL ORGAN MOTION;

DOSIMETRY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MOTION; ORGAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 34247265495     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/5/016     Document Type: Article

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