Toward optimal organ at risk sparing in complex volumetric modulated arc therapy: An exponential trade-off with target volume dose homogeneity

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Tol, Jim P ^a   Dahele, Max ^a   Doornaert, Patricia ^a   Slotman, Ben J ^a   Verbakel, Wilko F A R ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

OAR sparing; PTV dose homogeneity; treatment planning; volumetric modulated arc therapy

Indexed keywords

LINEAR CORRELATION; OAR SPARING; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; PTV DOSE HOMOGENEITY; SIMULTANEOUS INTEGRATED BOOSTS; SUBMANDIBULAR GLANDS; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; ORGAN AT RISK; PAROTID GLAND; PLANNING TARGET VOLUME DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; RISK; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; SWALLOWING; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84894258955     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4862521     Document Type: Article

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