The influence of the optimization starting conditions on the robustness of intensity-modulated proton therapy plans

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2863-2878

  Albertini, F ^a   Hug, E B ^a,b   Lomax, A J ^a,c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMLET WEIGHTS; BEAMLETS; CONSTANT WEIGHT; CT-VALUE; DOSE-VOLUME; FLUENCES; LATERAL DIRECTIONS; LOW DOSE; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; PROTON THERAPY; RANGE ERROR;

ERRORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

OPTIMIZATION;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; CHONDROSARCOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX TUMOR; UNCERTAINTY; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

CHONDROSARCOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; UNCERTAINTY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77951783837     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/10/005     Document Type: Article

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