Assessment of dose reconstruction errors in image-guided radiation therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 719-736

  Zhong, Hualiang ^a   Weiss, Elisabeth ^a   Siebers, Jeffrey V ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION (DIR); DOSE EVALUATION; STANDARD DISPLACEMENT ERROR (SDE); UNBALANCED ENERGY (UE);

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; SIMULATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ARTIFACTS; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 41849104547     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/3/013     Document Type: Article

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