Forward and adjoint methods for radiotherapy planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1702-1710

  Difilippo, Felix C ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint and forward techniques; And discrete ordinates methods; Dose optimization; Monte Carlo; Sensitivity theory; Tagging of functionals

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

ADJOINTS; DISCRETE ORDINATES METHOD; DOSE OPTIMIZATION; FUNCTIONALS; SENSITIVITY THEORY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; REVIEW; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0031680587     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598358     Document Type: Review

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