Assessment of uncertainties in treatment planning for scanned ion beam therapy of moving tumors

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 528-535

  Hild, Sebastian ^a,b   Durante, Marco ^a,c   Bert, Christoph ^a  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE MITTELHESSEN   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM THERAPY; CALCULATION TIME; DECISION PROCESS; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; LUNG CANCER; MITIGATION TECHNIQUES; OPTIMAL TREATMENT; SAMPLED DATA; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANS; TREATMENT SIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY EVALUATION; UNCERTAINTY INFORMATIONS; UNCERTAINTY VISUALIZATION; VARYING PARAMETERS;

DATA VISUALIZATION; TUMORS; VISUALIZATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SCANNED ION BEAM THERAPY; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNCERTAINTY;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RESPIRATION; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84872188079     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.04.011     Document Type: Article

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