Modeling simulation and visualization of conformal 3D lung tumor dosimetry

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 6165-6180

  Santhanam, Anand ^a,b   Willoughby, Twyla R ^a   Meeks, Sanford L ^a   Rolland, Jannick P ^b   Kupelian, Patrick A ^a  

^a M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER ORLANDO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER BASED SIMULATION; DOSE DELIVERY; FIDUCIALS; FILM DOSIMETRY; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG TUMOR; MODELING SIMULATION; MOTION RATE; MUNICH , GERMANY; NORMAL TISSUE; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION; PLANNING SYSTEMS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION TREATMENTS; RANDOM MOTIONS; REAL TIME; SIMULATION RESULT; TREATMENT PLANS; TUMOR MONITORING; TUMOR MOTION; TUMOR SIZE;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; HISTOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIMULATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

TUMORS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; LUNG TUMOR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VOLUME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 70449109795     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/20/009     Document Type: Article

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