Evolving treatment plan quality criteria from institution-specific experience

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2708-2712

  Ruan, D ^a   Shao, W ^a   Demarco, J ^a   Tenn, S ^a   King, C ^a   Low, D ^a   Kupelian, P ^a   Steinberg, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

plan quality; self evolving dose criterion

Indexed keywords

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; RADIOTHERAPY; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; UROLOGY;

CONSISTENCY MEASURES; DOSE CRITERIA; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; PLAN QUALITY; RADIATION THERAPY TREATMENT; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PRESCRIPTION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84861610773     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4704497     Document Type: Article

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