Dealing with geometric uncertainties in dose painting by numbers: Introducing the ΔvH

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 402-406

  Witte, Marnix ^a   Shakirin, Georgy ^b   Houweling, Antonetta ^a   Peulen, Heike ^a   Van Herk, Marcel ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dose painting; IMRT optimization; Plan evaluation; Probabilistic planning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE PAINTING; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG CANCER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OROPHARYNX CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; UNCERTAINTY;

ALGORITHMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SOFTWARE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 80054079687     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.08.028     Document Type: Article

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