Texture analysis on the edge-enhanced fluence of VMAT

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Park, So Yeon ^a,b   Park, Jong Min ^a,b,c   Sung, Wonmo ^d   Kim, Il Han ^a,b   Ye, Sung Joon ^a,b,d  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fluence; Modulation index; Texture analysis; Volumetric modulated arc therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST; ENTROPY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; VOLUMETRY; ALGORITHM; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

ALGORITHMS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84926285519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13014-015-0382-z     Document Type: Article

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