A strategy to objectively evaluate the necessity of correcting detected target deviations in image guided radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4340-4347

  Yue, Ning J ^a   Kim, Sung ^a   Jabbour, Salma ^a   Narra, Venkat ^a   Haffty, Bruce G ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Image guided radiotherapy; Target shift correction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DISEASES; ENCLOSURES; GOLD; UROLOGY;

CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHM; DEVIATION CORRECTIONS; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TREATMENT VERIFICATION;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 35648959725     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2794201     Document Type: Article

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