Multicriteria Optimization in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning for Locally Advanced Cancer of the Pancreatic Head

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1208-1214

  Hong, Theodore S ^a   Craft, David L ^a   Carlsson, Fredrik ^b   Bortfeld, Thomas R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b RaySearch Laboratories   (Sweden)

Author keywords

IMRT; Multicriteria optimization; Pancreatic cancer

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY; PROCESS ENGINEERING; RADIOTHERAPY; SURFACES;

CONFORMAL; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; GREAT-ER; IMRT; IMRT PLANNING; IMRT PLANS; INVERSE PLANNING; MEAN DOSES; MULTICRITERIA OPTIMIZATION; MULTICRITERIA OPTIMIZATIONS; PANCREATIC CANCER; PANCREATIC CANCERS; PANCREATIC HEADS; PARETO SURFACES; RADIATION THERAPIES; RADIATION THERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PARETO PRINCIPLE;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KIDNEY; PANCREAS CANCER; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATISFACTION; STOMACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 54049103723     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.07.015     Document Type: Article

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