IMRT optimization including random and systematic geometric errors based on the expectation of TCP and NTCP

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3544-3555

  Witte, Marnix G ^a   Van Der Geer, Joris ^a   Schneider, Christoph ^a   Lebesque, Joos V ^a   Alber, Markus ^b   Van Herk, Marcel ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inverse planning; Radiation therapy; Setup errors; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TOXICITY; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; TUMORS; UROLOGY;

INVERSE PLANNING; NORMAL TISSUE COMPLICATION PROBABILITIES; PROBABILISTIC OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY TO VARIATIONS; SETUP ERRORS; SIMULTANEOUS INTEGRATED BOOSTS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR CONTROL PROBABILITY;

RANDOM ERRORS;

ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 34548359036     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2760027     Document Type: Article

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