Inverse radiosurgery treatment planning through deconvolution and constrained optimization

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1850-1857

  Harmon, Joseph F ^a   Bova, Frank ^b   Meeks, Sanford ^b  

^a USAF Medical Center Keesler   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convolution; Intensity modulation; Optimization; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; DECONVOLUTION; DOSIMETRY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MODULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; RADIOTHERAPY; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

DECONVOLUTION ALGORITHM; DECONVOLUTIONS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; EXPLICIT METHOD; IMPLICIT METHODS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; OPTIMISATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; HISTOGRAM; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOSURGERY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0031731767     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598365     Document Type: Article

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