Conformal radiotherapy computation by the method of alternating projections onto convex sets

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1065-1086

  Lee, Shinhak ^a   Cho, Paul S ^b   Marks II, Robert J ^a   Oh, Seho ^c  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NeoPath Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0030919794     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/42/6/006     Document Type: Article

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