A method to evaluate dose errors introduced by dose mapping processes for mass conserving deformations

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2119-2128

  Yan, C ^a   Hugo, G ^a   Salguero, F J ^a   Saleh Sayah, N ^a   Weiss, E ^a   Sleeman, W C ^a   Siebers, J V ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

deformable image registration; dose mapping error

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC GUIDED VEHICLES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; ERRORS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATIENT TREATMENT;

ABSOLUTE DIFFERENTIAL; ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPIES; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; DOSE MAPPING; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; THE REGION OF INTEREST (ROI); TISSUE DEFORMATIONS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

MAPPING;

EID: 84861587338     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3684951     Document Type: Article

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