Intensity-modulated radiotherapy optimization in a quasi-periodically deforming patient model.

Purpose: To present the implementation of a probability-based, four-dimensional (4D) intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) planning approach that explicitly optimizes the accumulated dose to moving tissue, estimated using the patient's probability density function (pdf) of respiratory motion. This...

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Published in:International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics Vol. 75; no. 3; pp. 906 - 915
Main Authors: Söhn M, Weinmann M, Alber M, Söhn, Matthias, Weinmann, Martin, Alber, Markus
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science Nov2009
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