Similarities between static and rotational intensity-modulated plans

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-43

  Wu, Q Jackie ^a   Yin, Fang Fang ^a   McMahon, Ryan ^a   Zhu, Xiaofeng ^a   Das, Shiva K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC CONTROL; CRITICAL NUMBERS; INHOMOGENEITIES; INTENSITY LEVELS; INTENSITY-MODULATED ARC THERAPIES; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; PELVIC LYMPH NODES; PLAN QUALITY; SEMINAL VESICLE; SIMILAR NUMBERS; TARGET COVERAGE; TARGET VOLUMES; TREATMENT SITES;

CAVITY RESONATORS; TARGETS;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SEMINAL VESICLE;

HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PELVIS; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTUM; SEMINAL VESICLES; TIME FACTORS; URINARY BLADDER; UROGENITAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 71849084001     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/1/003     Document Type: Article

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