Dose optimization for the MRI-accelerator: IMRT in the presence of a magnetic field

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 7045-7054

  Raaijmakers, A J E ^a   Hardemark B ^b   Raaymakers, B W ^a   Raaijmakers, C P J ^a   Lagendijk, J J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RaySearch Laboratories AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; ONCOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION;

DOSE DISTRIBUTION KERNELS; HOMOGENEOUS DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; INVERSE TREATMENT PLANNING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX CANCER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 36349016674     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/23/018     Document Type: Article

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