Towards an objective evaluation of tolerances for beam modeling in a treatment planning system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 6011-6025

  Rangel, A ^a,b   Ploquin, N ^a,b   Kay, I ^a,b   Dunscombe, P ^a,b  

^a TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TISSUE;

BEAM MODELING; DOSE CALCULATION ALGORITHMS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BREAST; DOSIMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CANADA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34748896662     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/19/020     Document Type: Article

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