Patient geometry-driven information retrieval for IMRT treatment plan quality control

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5497-5505

  Wu, Binbin ^a   Ricchetti, Francesco ^a   Sanguineti, Giuseppe ^a   Kazhdan, Misha ^b   Simari, Patricio ^b   Chuang, Ming ^b   Taylor, Russell ^b   Jacques, Robert ^c   McNutt, Todd ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Database; IMRT; OVH; Quality control; Shape relationship descriptor

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOMETRY; PLANNING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY;

DESCRIPTORS; GEOMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; GEOMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY ONCOLOGY GROUPS; SPATIAL CONFIGURATION; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ESOPHAGUS; GEOMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX; MANDIBLE; MOUTH MUCOSA; PAROTID GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 72049104417     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3253464     Document Type: Article

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