Evaluation of a commercial biologically based IMRT treatment planning system

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5851-5860

  Semenenko, Vladimir A ^a   Reitz, Bodo ^b   Day, Ellen ^b   Qi, X Sharon ^a   Miften, Moyed ^c   Li, X Allen ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological optimization; Dose volume based optimization; Dosimetric plan comparisons; IMRT treatment planning

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSE-VOLUME; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; DOSIMETRIC PLAN COMPARISONS; EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION THERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

COST FUNCTIONS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LIVER CANCER; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 56749175428     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3013556     Document Type: Article

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