Analysis of stochastic noise in intensity-modulated beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 3857-3875

  Coolens, Catherine ^a   Evans, Phil M ^a   Seco, Joao ^a   Webb, Steve ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE MODULATION;

INTENSITY-MODULATED BEAMS (IMB); STOCHASTIC NOISE;

MEDICINE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 4544233999     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/17/003     Document Type: Article

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