Retrospective IMRT Dose Reconstruction Based on Cone-Beam CT and MLC Log-File

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 634-644

  Lee, Louis ^a   Le, Quynh Thu ^a   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation therapy; Cone beam CT; Dose reconstruction; Head and neck IMRT; MLC log file

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPY; DOSE RECONSTRUCTION;

DRUG DOSAGE;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ESTHESIONEUROBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CALIBRATION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONS; ESTHESIONEUROBLASTOMA, OLFACTORY; EYE NEOPLASMS; FILING; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LACRIMAL APPARATUS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 38149080615     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.09.054     Document Type: Article

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