A phantom assessment of achievable contouring concordance across multiple treatment planning systems

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 438-441

  Pogson, Elise M ^a,b   Begg, Jarrad ^b   Jameson, Michael G ^a,b   Dempsey, Claire ^c,d   Latty, Drew ^e   Batumalai, Vikneswary ^b,i   Lim, Andrew ^f   Kandasamy, Kankean ^g   Metcalfe, Peter E ^a,b   Holloway, Lois C ^a,b,h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c CALVARY MATER NEWCASTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^e Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre   (Australia)

^f PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^g PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contouring; Delineation; DICE; Hausdorff; Inter observer; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARDS;

HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84945581920     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2015.09.022     Document Type: Article

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