KEYWORD INDEX FOR VOLUME 30, 2005 Adjuvant radiotherapy, 149
Lead, 104
Beam intersection, 65 Biological objectives, 12 Biological optimization, 12 Brachytherapy, 85, 139, 143, 243 Breast cancer, 8, 31, 107, 149 Breast immobilization, 31
MDCB, 92 MLC, 59, 135 mMLC, 97 Monte Carlo, 85 MOSFET calibration factor, 213 MOSFET dosimeters, 213 MRI, 20 Multimodality registration, 20 Mutual information, 20
Certification, 92 Chamfer matching, 20 CMD, 92 Collimator parameters, 205 Compensator, 59 Conformal radiotherapy, 162, 169 Convolution/superposition, 233 Couch, 65 CT scanning, 20, 145
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma, 219 Normalization, 194 Optimization, 201, 205 Penumbra, 104 Pinnacle, 228 Portal imaging, 36 Post-mastectomy radiation therapy, 107 Practical range, 104 Prostate cancer, 1, 25, 69, 76, 97, 155, 169, 243 Prostate immobilization, 69 Prostate implant, 85 Prostate motion review, 155 Prostate radiation therapy, 205 Prostheses, 169
3DCRT, 69 Dosimetric effects, 25 Dosimetrist, 92 EBRT, 155 EDW, 228 Electron, 104 Electron density, 145 Electronic portal imaging, 76 Enhanced dynamic wedge, 228 Exam, 92
Quality assurance, 143, 233, 243
Field match, 135 Flatness, 104 Fluence editing, 201 Forward IMRT, 149
Radiation dosimetry, 97 Radiotherapy, 8, 25, 31, 65, 76 Rectal balloon, 25 Rectal wall dose sparing, 25 Reduced rectal toxicity, 25
Gynecology, 36 Scalp irradiation, 162 Semiconductor dosimeters, 213 Setup error, 1, 36 Setup verification, 76 Skin surface dose, 31 Small field dose modeling, 233 Static IMRT, 59 Step-and-shoot IMRT, 233 Systematic errors, 76
HDR, 143, 243 HDR source, 139 Head-and-neck cancer, 135 Hot and cold spots, 201 IMC, 107 IMRT, 1, 12, 36, 69, 97, 107, 162, 201, 205, 219 Inhomogeneity, 8 Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), 8, 25, 169, 194, 219 Intensity modulation, 135 Interseed effect, 85 Inverse IMRT, 149 In vivo dosimetry, 213 Iridium, 143 125 I source, 85
TG43 parameters, 139 Tissue characterization, 145 Tissue inhomogeneity, 145 TLD, 59 Tomotherapy, 162 Treatment planning, 65, 145, 169, 194, 228 Treatment set up, 31
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