Optimization of importance factors in inverse planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2525-2536

  Xing, L ^a   Li, J G ^a   Donaldson, S ^a   Le, Q T ^a   Boyer, A L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; EYE NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG; LYMPHOMA; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0032859241     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/10/311     Document Type: Article

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