A review of treatment planning for precision image-guided photon beam pre-clinical animal radiation studies

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 323-334

  Verhaegen, Frank ^a   van Hoof, Stefan ^a   Granton, Patrick V ^a   Trani, Daniela ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dose calculation; Image guidance; Photon scatter; Precision irradiation; Small animal; Treatment planning system

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGHT SCATTERING; MECHANICAL TORSION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHOTON THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPERPOSITION CONVOLUTION ALGORITHM; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84918797606     PISSN: 09393889     EISSN: 18764436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zemedi.2014.02.004     Document Type: Article

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