Using overlap volume histogram and IMRT plan data to guide and automate VMAT planning: A head-and-neck case study

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Binbin ^a   Pang, Dalong ^a   Simari, Patricio ^b   Taylor, Russell ^c   Sanguineti, Giuseppe ^d   McNutt, Todd ^d  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DVH; head and neck; IMRT database; OVH; VMAT

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DOSIMETRY; GRAPHIC METHODS;

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; HEAD AND NECK; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PLANNING APPLICATIONS; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; VMAT; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEGRADATION; DOSIMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INNER EAR; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX; NASOPHARYNX; OROPHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; ORGANS AT RISK; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TUMOR VOLUME;

AUTOMATION; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84873604523     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4788671     Document Type: Article

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