Inclusion of organ movements in IMRT treatment planning via inverse planning based on probability distributions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 4005-4029

  Unkelbach, J ^a   Oelfke, U ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INCLUSIONS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

INTER-FRACTION ORGAN MOTION; INVERSE PLANNING; ORGAN MOVEMENTS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MOTION; ORGAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNCERTAINTY;

HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOVEMENT; PROBABILITY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4544356974     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/17/013     Document Type: Article

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