Simulating intrafraction prostate motion with a random walk model
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Simulating intrafraction prostate motion with a random walk model
Purpose Prostate motion during radiation therapy (ie, intrafraction motion) can cause unwanted loss of radiation dose to the prostate and increased dose to the surrounding organs at risk. A compact but general statistical description of this motion could be useful for simulation of radiation therapy delivery or margin calculations. We investigated whether prostate motion could be modeled with a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Radiation Oncology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2452-1094
DOI: 10.1016/j.adro.2017.03.005