A simplified method of four-dimensional dose accumulation using the mean patient density representation

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5269-5277

  Glide Hurst, Carri K ^a   Hugo, Geoffrey D ^a   Liang, Jian ^a   Yan, Di ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

4DCT; Adaptive radiation therapy; AVG CT; Dose accumulation; Dose calculation

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

4DCT; ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPIES; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; DISPLACEMENT VECTOR FIELDS; DOSE ACCUMULATION; DOSE CALCULATION; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIOTHERAPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG CANCER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 56749184165     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3002304     Document Type: Article

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