Pre-segmented 2-Step IMRT with subsequent direct machine parameter optimisation - A planning study

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Bratengeier, Klaus ^a   Meyer, Jürgen ^b   Flentje, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MONITOR; PHANTOM; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION BEAM; TREATMENT PLANNING; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; ONCOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 58149354394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-3-38     Document Type: Article

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