Fractal analysis for assessing the level of modulation of IMRT fields

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5385-5393

  Nauta, Marcel ^a   Villarreal Barajas, J Eduardo ^a,b   Tambasco, Mauro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

complexity; fractal dimension; IMRT; quality assurance; treatment planning; variogram method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FRACTAL DIMENSION; POWER SPECTRUM; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY;

COMPLEXITY; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS; VARIOGRAMS;

MODULATION;

EID: 80053614234     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3633912     Document Type: Article

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