Quantification of beam complexity in intensity-modulated radiation therapy treatment plans

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Du, Weiliang ^a   Cho, Sang Hyun ^a   Zhang, Xiaodong ^a   Hoffman, Karen E ^a   Kudchadker, Rajat J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

beam complexity; beam modulation; IMRT; VMAT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MODULATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; UROLOGY;

BEAM COMPLEXITY; BEAM MODULATION; DIFFERENT TREATMENTS; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; VMAT; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; HEAD; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NECK; PROSTATE; QUALITY CONTROL; SPINE; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84894340039     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4861821     Document Type: Article

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