A global quality assurance system for personalized radiation therapy treatment planning for the prostate (or other sites)

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 5575-5591

  Nwankwo, Obioma ^a   Sihono, Dwi Seno K ^a   Schneider, Frank ^a   Wenz, Frederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

dose prediction algorithm; IMRT VMAT treatment plan optimization; normal tissue sparing knowledge based radiation therapy treatment planning; personalized radiotherapy treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; ORGANS AT RISK; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; STANDARDS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MALE; ORGANS AT RISK; PRECISION MEDICINE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84906901770     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/18/5575     Document Type: Article

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