Adaptive fractionation therapy: I. Basic concept and strategy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 5495-5511

  Lu, Weiguo ^a   Chen, Mingli ^a   Chen, Quan ^a   Ruchala, Kenneth ^a   Olivera, Gustavo ^a  

^a TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LINEARIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

A-PRIORI; ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUES; CONVENTIONAL FRACTIONATION; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; FRACTION SIZE; IMAGE GUIDANCES; INTERNAL STRUCTURES; LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIATION DELIVERY; RELATIVE DISTANCES; VARIATIONS OF;

TUMORS;

ADAPTIVE FRACTIONATION THERAPY; ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 51849109356     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/19/015     Document Type: Article

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