Variable planning margin approach to account for locoregional variations in setup uncertainties

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 5136-5144

  Yang, Jinzhong ^a   Garden, Adam S ^a   Zhang, Yongbin ^a   Zhang, Lifei ^a   Dong, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

head and neck cancer; locoregional variations; margins; setup uncertainties

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; RADIOTHERAPY;

ANTERIOR POSTERIORS; CLINICAL TREATMENTS; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; LOCOREGIONAL VARIATIONS; MARGINS; SETUP UNCERTAINTY; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 84864712057     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4737891     Document Type: Article

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