Towards the development of an error checker for radiotherapy treatment plans: A preliminary study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 6511-6524

  Azmandian, Fatemeh ^a   Kaeli, David ^a   Dy, Jennifer G ^a   Hutchinson, Elizabeth ^b   Ancukiewicz, Marek ^b   Niemierko, Andrzej ^b   Jiang, Steve B ^b,c  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA MINING; ERROR ANALYSIS;

BEAM ENERGY; COMPUTER CLUSTERING; ERROR CHECKER; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MONITORING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 36048939130     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/21/012     Document Type: Article

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