Inverse treatment planning and integration of segmentation procedures

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 163-169

  Rickhey, Mark ^a   Morávek, Zdenek ^a   Bogner, Ludwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

fluence smoothing; IMRT; segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KERNEL METHOD; PHANTOM; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 48549099926     PISSN: 09393889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zemedi.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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