Clinical Evaluation of Direct Aperture Optimization When Applied to Head-And-Neck IMRT

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 86-92

  Jones, Stephen ^a   Williams, Matthew ^a  

^a Illawarra Cancer Care Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

DAO; DMPO; IMRT; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38849124821     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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