Incorporating model parameter uncertainty into inverse treatment planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2711-2720

  Lian, Jun ^b   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological models; Dose optimization; IMRT; Inverse planning

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL MODELS; DOSE OPTIMIZATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONS; EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE; IMRT; INVERSE PLANNING; RADIOBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ARTICLE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DOSE RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOBIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 4644325551     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1785451     Document Type: Article

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