Statistical assessment of proton treatment plans under setup and range uncertainties

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1007-1013

  Park, Peter C ^a   Cheung, Joey P ^a   Zhu, X Ronald ^a   Lee, Andrew K ^a   Sahoo, Narayan ^a   Tucker, Susan L ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Li, Heng ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a   Court, Laurence E ^a   Dong, Lei ^b  

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

^b Scripps Proton Therapy Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; CRITICAL STRUCTURES; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; FEASIBLE ROBUSTNESS; METHODS AND MATERIALS; STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL SIMULATION;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; GRAPHIC METHODS; PROTONS; RANDOM ERRORS; STATISTICS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; UROLOGY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNCERTAINTY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BRAIN STEM; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; ESOPHAGUS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; ORGANS AT RISK; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY SETUP ERRORS; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84880046999     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.04.009     Document Type: Article

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