On the dosimetric impact of inhomogeneity management in the Acuros XB algorithm for breast treatment

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Fogliata, Antonella ^a   Nicolini, Giorgia ^a   Clivio, Alessandro ^a   Vanetti, Eugenio ^a   Cozzi, Luca ^a  

^a ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

AAA; Acuros; Breast; Inhomogeneity correction; Tissue density

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ANISOTROPIC ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LUNG; MUSCLE TISSUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; BREAST TUMOR; CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052026114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-6-103     Document Type: Article

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