Dosimetric verification of surface and superficial doses for head and neck IMRT with different PTV shrinkage margins

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1435-1443

  Shiau, An Cheng ^a,b,c   Lai, Pei Ling ^d   Liang, Ji An ^e   Shueng, Pei Wei ^b,f   Chen, Wei Li ^a   Kuan, Wei Peng ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FAR EASTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^f TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

dose in the buildup region; intensity modulated radiation therapy; superficial dose; thermoluminescent dosimeter

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; SHRINKAGE; TUMORS;

BUILD-UP REGION; CALCULATION ACCURACY; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; SUPERFICIAL DOSE; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 79952137212     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3553406     Document Type: Article

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