Dosimetric Comparison of Manual and Beam Angle Optimization of Gantry Angles in IMRT

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 313-316

  Srivastava, Shiv P ^a,b   Das, Indra J ^b   Kumar, Arvind ^a   Johnstone, Peter A S ^b  

^a Reid Hospital and Health Care Services   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; IMRT; Manual beam geometry; Optimized beam geometry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BEAM ANGLE OPTIMIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GANTRY ANGLE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MANUAL BEAM ANGLE SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79960903976     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: 18734022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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