Complaint-adaptive power density optimization as a tool for HTP-guided steering in deep hyperthermia treatment of pelvic tumors

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 6799-6820

  Canters, R A M ^a   Franckena, M ^a   Van Der Zee, J ^a   Van Rhoon, G C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTIMIZATIONS; CLINICAL EVALUATIONS; CLINICAL USES; GOAL FUNCTIONS; HOT SPOTS; HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENTS; INITIAL OPTIMIZATIONS; OPTIMIZATION METHODS; PATIENT MODELS; PD DISTRIBUTIONS; PHANTOM TESTS; POWER DENSITIES; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; THREE STEPS; TIME CONSUMPTIONS;

OPTIMIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; PELVIS TUMOR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PAIN; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149260335     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/23/010     Document Type: Article

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