Improvements in prostate radiotherapy from the customization of beam directions

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 7 I, 1998, Pages 1171-1179

  Rowbottom, Carl Graham ^a   Webb, Steve ^a   Oldham, Mark ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; Optimization; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; UROLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS; CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; NORMAL TISSUE COMPLICATION PROBABILITIES; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR CONTROL PROBABILITY;

COST FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COST; HUMAN; MALE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 0031811859     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598308     Document Type: Article

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