A GPU-based framework for modeling real-time 3D lung tumor conformal dosimetry with subject-specific lung tumor motion

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 5137-5150

  Min, Yugang ^a   Santhanam, Anand ^a,b   Neelakkantan, Harini ^b   Ruddy, Bari H ^a   Meeks, Sanford L ^b   Kupelian, Patrick A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78149323453     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/17/016     Document Type: Article

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