Use of plan quality degradation to evaluate tradeoffs in delivery efficiency and clinical plan metrics arising from IMRT optimizer and sequencer compromises

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Wilkie, Joel R ^a,b   Matuszak, Martha M ^a,b   Feng, Mary ^a,b   Moran, Jean M ^a,b   Fraass, Benedick A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

IMRT; optimization; plan scoring

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMMERCE; COST FUNCTIONS; EFFICIENCY; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

CLINICAL SITUATIONS; EFFICIENT TREATMENT; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY; PLAN SCORING; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; PLAN QUALITY DEGRADATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84880215983     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4808118     Document Type: Article

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