Inverse radiation treatment planning using the Dynamically Penalized Likelihood method

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1751-1764

  Llacer, Jorge ^a  

^a EC Engineering Consultants LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse problems; Maximum likelihood estimator; Penalized likelihood; Therapy planning

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

COMPUTER-GENERATED PHANTOMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD; PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD METHODS; RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; THERAPY PLANNING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEM;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0030699173     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597961     Document Type: Article

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