Treatment planning using MRI data: An analysis of the dose calculation accuracy for different treatment regions

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Jonsson, Joakim H ^b   Karlsson, Magnus G ^a   Karlsson, Mikael ^b   Nyholm, Tufve ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CAVITY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIC GIRDLE; PRESCRIPTION; PROSTATE CANCER; SKULL; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77954077099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-5-62     Document Type: Article

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