Optimization by visualization of indices;Optimierung durch Visualisierung von Indizes

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 190, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1053-1059

  Haverkamp, Uwe ^a   Norkus, Darius ^b   Kriz, Jan ^a   Müller Minai, Mariam ^c   Prott, Franz Josef ^c   Eich, Hans Theodor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c Institute of Radiotherapy Wiesbaden   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dose; Radiosurgery; Radiotherapy, conformal; Radiotherapy, intensity modulated; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84922327658     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-014-0688-z     Document Type: Article

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