PTV-based IMPT optimization incorporating planning risk volumes vs robust optimization

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Wei ^a   Frank, Steven J ^a   Li, Xiaoqiang ^a   Li, Yupeng ^b   Zhu, Ron X ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

IMPT; planning risk volume; robust optimization; robustness evaluation

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DISEASES; UROLOGY;

CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; IMPT; INTENSITY MODULATED PROTON THERAPIES; PLANNING RISK VOLUMES; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION METHOD; ROBUSTNESS EVALUATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DATA BASE; EVALUATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PLANNING TARGET VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANS AT RISK; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; RISK; TUMOR VOLUME;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; ORGANS AT RISK; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; RISK; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84873603218     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4774363     Document Type: Article

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