A Monte Carlo study of the impact of the choice of rectum volume definition on estimates of equivalent uniform doses and the volume parameter

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3341-3352

  Kvinnsland, Yngve ^a,b   Muren, Ludvig Paul ^a,b   Dahl, Olav ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUMULATIVE DOSES; DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SCANNING; TISSUE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECTUM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGAN SIZE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4444358485     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/15/002     Document Type: Article

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