Experimental evaluation of a robust optimization method for IMRT of moving targets

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2901-2914

  Vrančić, Christian ^a   Trofimov, Alexei ^b   Chan, Timothy C Y ^c   Sharp, Gregory C ^b   Bortfeld, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREATHING PATTERNS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; GATED RADIOTHERAPY; HEALTHY TISSUES; INTEGRAL DOSE; INTERNAL ORGANS; IONIZATION DETECTORS; MAXIMUM AMPLITUDE; MOTION DATA; MOTION TRAJECTORIES; MOVING TARGETS; ONE DIMENSION; OPTIMIZED PLANS; PATIENT BREATHING; PLANNING PROCESS; RADIATION THERAPY; RADIATION TREATMENTS; RECTANGULAR AREA; ROBUST MOTION; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION METHOD; ROBUST PLANNING; SAFETY MARGIN; TARGET COVERAGE; TARGET POSITION; TREATMENT DESIGN; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANS;

CURRICULA; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; STANDARDS;

TARGETS;

ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MOTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TARGET ORGAN; TREATMENT PLANNING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAFETY; UNCERTAINTY;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAFETY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 67649889111     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/9/021     Document Type: Article

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