Direct aperture optimization as a means of reducing the complexity of intensity modulated radiation therapy plans

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Broderick, Maria ^a   Leech, Michelle ^a   Coffey, Mary ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR UNIT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; STANDARD; TUMOR VOLUME;

CALIBRATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 61649103785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-4-8     Document Type: Review

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