Functional avoidance of lung in plan optimization with an aperture-based inverse planning system

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 390-395

  St Hilaire, Jason ^a   Lavoie, Caroline ^a   Dagnault, Anne ^a   Beaulieu, Frédéric ^a   Morin, Francis ^b   Beaulieu, Luc ^a   Tremblay, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angle optimization; Aperture based IMRT; Functional avoidance; Lung cancer; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY BASED APERTURE INVERSE PLANNING SYSTEM; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS; HEART; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ORGANS AT RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80054069723     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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