Prior-knowledge treatment planning for volumetric arc therapy using feature-based database mining

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 19-27

  Schreibmann, Eduard ^a   Fox, Tim ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated treatment planning; Database mining; Shape matching; Shape similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896320732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v15i2.4596     Document Type: Article

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