A knowledge-based approach to improving and homogenizing intensity modulated radiation therapy planning quality among treatment centers: An example application to prostate cancer planning

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 176-181

  Good, David ^a   Lo, Joseph ^a,b   Lee, W Robert ^a   Wu, Q Jackie ^a   Yin, Fang Fang ^a   Das, Shiva K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT TREATMENTS; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KNOWLEDGE DATABASE; KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPROACH; METHODS AND MATERIALS; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DISEASES; PHYSICAL THERAPY; QUERY PROCESSING; RADIOTHERAPY;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; BLADDER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; FEMUR HEAD; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CANCER CARE FACILITIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMUR HEAD; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE BASES; MALE; ORGANS AT RISK; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTUM; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 84881368203     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.03.015     Document Type: Article

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