Number and orientations of beams in intensity-modulated radiation treatments

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 149-160

  Stein, Jörg ^a,b   Mohan, Radhe ^b   Wang, Xiao Hong ^b   Bortfeld, Thomas ^a   Wu, Qiuwen ^b   Preiser, Konrad ^a   Ling, C Clifton ^b   Schlegel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

intensity modulated treatments; number of beams; optimum orientation of beams

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS; UROLOGY;

CONVOLUTION ALGORITHM; DOSE-ESCALATION STUDY; FAST SIMULATED ANNEALING; INTENSITY-MODULATED; NUMBER OF BEAMS; OPTIMUM ORIENTATION OF BEAMS; RADIATION TREATMENTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) GEOMETRY;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0031045416     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597923     Document Type: Article

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