Predicting dose-volume histograms for organs-at-risk in IMRT planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 7446-7461

  Appenzoller, Lindsey M ^a   Michalski, Jeff M ^a   Thorstad, Wade L ^a   Mutic, Sasa ^a   Moore, Kevin L ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; GRAPHIC METHODS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICS; UROLOGY;

DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; EVALUATION CRITERIA; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; MANUAL INTERVENTION; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; PREDICTIVE ABILITIES; SAMPLE CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84870905344     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4761864     Document Type: Article

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