Comparison of anatomy-based, fluence-based and aperture-based treatment planning approaches for VMAT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 6475-6490

  Rao, Min ^a   Cao, Daliang ^a   Chen, Fan ^a   Ye, Jinsong ^a   Mehta, Vivek ^a   Wong, Tony ^a   Shepard, David ^a  

^a SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 78149332421     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/21/009     Document Type: Article

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