Conversion of helical tomotherapy plans to step-and-shoot IMRT plans-Pareto front evaluation of plans from a new treatment planning system

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3130-3138

  Petersson, Kristoffer ^a   Ceberg, Crister ^a   Engstrm, Per ^a,b   Benedek, Hunor ^a,b   Nilsson, Per ^a,b   Knöös, Tommy ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Pareto; SharePlan

Indexed keywords

LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; QUALITY CONTROL; ROBOTIC ARMS; UROLOGY;

CLINICAL SYSTEMS; CLINICAL TREATMENTS; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PARETO; SHAREPLAN; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TREATMENT PLANS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 79958795373     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3592934     Document Type: Article

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