A beam-specific planning target volume (PTV) design for proton therapy to account for setup and range uncertainties

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Park, Peter C ^a,b   Zhu, X Ronald ^b   Lee, Andrew K ^b   Sahoo, Narayan ^b   Melancon, Adam D ^b   Zhang, Lifei ^b   Dong, Lei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Proton therapy; PTV; Range uncertainties; Setup errors; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

PROTON THERAPY; PTV; RANGE UNCERTAINTY; SETUP ERRORS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERRORS; PHOTONS; PROTON BEAMS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

PROTONS;

ARTICLE; BEAM SPECIFIC PLANNING TARGET VOLUME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE FIELD OPTIMIZATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY SETUP ERRORS; TUMOR BURDEN; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84855861278     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.05.011     Document Type: Article

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