Standardized beam bouquets for lung IMRT planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1831-1843

  Yuan, Lulin ^a   Wu, Q Jackie ^a   Yin, Fangfang ^a   Li, Ying ^b   Sheng, Yang ^c   Kelsey, Christopher R ^a   Ge, Yaorong ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

beam angle; beam configuration; IMRT; lung cancer; optimization

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASES; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; TUMORS;

AUTOMATED PLANNING; BEAM ANGLE; BEAM CONFIGURATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS METHODS; CRITICAL COMPONENT; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG CANCER;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PROCEDURES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84922570873     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/60/5/1831     Document Type: Article

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