A distance to dose difference tool for estimating the required spatial accuracy of a displacement vector field

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2318-2323

  Saleh Sayah, Nahla K ^a   Weiss, Elisabeth ^a   Salguero, Francisco J ^a   Siebers, Jeffrey V ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; LOCATION; MAPPING; RADIOTHERAPY;

CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; DISPLACEMENT VECTOR FIELDS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERNAL TARGET VOLUME; PATIENT'S ANATOMY; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

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EID: 79959570592     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3572228     Document Type: Article

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