Development and validation of a treatment planning system for small animal radiotherapy: SmART-Plan

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 361-366

  Van Hoof, Stefan J ^a   Granton, Patrick V ^a   Verhaegen, Frank ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; Pre clinical studies; Precision irradiation; Radiotherapy; Small animals; Treatment planning system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; FILM DOSIMETER; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; WORKFLOW; X RAY TUBE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOUSE; PHOTON; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; THERAPEUTIC USE; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; FILM DOSIMETRY; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84890015670     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2013.10.003     Document Type: Article

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