Agreement criteria between expected and measured field fluences in IMRT of head and neck cancer: The importance and use of the γ histograms statistical analysis

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 399-406

  De Martin, Elena ^a   Fiorino, Claudio ^a   Broggi, Sara ^a   Longobardi, Barbara ^a   Pierelli, Alessio ^a   Perna, Lucia ^a   Cattaneo, Giovanni Mauro ^a   Calandrino, Riccardo ^a  

^a IRCCS San Raffaele   (Italy)

Author keywords

Histograms statistical analysis; IMRT; Pre treatment dosimetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EVALUATION; GAMMA HISTOGRAM STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARAMETER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 36749016150     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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