An on-line replanning method for head and neck adaptive radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4776-4790

  Ahunbay, Ergun E ^a   Peng, Cheng ^a   Godley, Andrew ^a   Schultz, Christopher ^a   Li, X Allen ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; Head and neck; IGRT; Interfractional variations

Indexed keywords

QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; RADIOTHERAPY;

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; HEAD AND NECK; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; IGRT; INTERFRACTIONAL VARIATIONS; SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 70349653543     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3215532     Document Type: Article

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