Incorporating uncertainties in respiratory motion into 4D treatment plan optimization

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3059-3071

  Heath, Emily ^a   Unkelbach, Jan ^a   Oelfke, Uwe ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

4D; IMRT; Lung

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION; IMRT; LUNG; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILISTIC OPTIMIZATION; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION;

RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; FOUR DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; GEOMETRY; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGING; LUNG; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SPINAL CORD; SPIROMETRY; TIDAL VOLUME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 67649631512     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3148582     Document Type: Article

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