Patient-specific 3D pretreatment and potential 3D online dose verification of Monte Carlo-calculated IMRT prostate treatment plans

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1168-1175

  Boggula, Ramesh ^a   Jahnke, Lennart ^a   Wertz, Hansjoerg ^a   Lohr, Frank ^a   Wenz, Frederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D quality assurance; COMPASS; IMRT; Monte Carlo; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

3D QUALITY ASSURANCE; ABSOLUTE POINTS; ADDITIONAL TREATMENT; BEAM MODEL; COMPREHENSIVE QUALITIES; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE MEASUREMENT; DOSE RECONSTRUCTION; DOSE VERIFICATION; DOSE-VOLUME; EXTENDED DOSE RANGE FILMS; FLUENCES; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; ION CHAMBER; MONTE CARLO; OFFLINE; ON-LINE PROCEDURES; PATIENT ANATOMY; PRE-TREATMENT; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROSTATE TREATMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSMISSION DETECTORS; TREATMENT PLANS; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2D) ARRAYS;

DISEASES; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHYSICAL THERAPY; PIXELS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; HUMANS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 80255134521     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.09.010     Document Type: Article

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