An on-line replanning scheme for interfractional variations

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3607-3615

  Ahunbay, Ergun E ^a   Peng, Cheng ^a   Chen, Guang Pei ^a   Narayanan, Sreeram ^b   Yu, Cedric ^c   Lawton, Colleen ^a   Li, X Allen ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b Prowess Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; IGRT; Interfractional variations; Replanning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; IGRT; INTERFRACTIONAL VARIATIONS; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; RE-PLANNING; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; WEIGHT OPTIMIZATION;

DEFORMATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOGRAM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 48349124822     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2952443     Document Type: Article

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