Treatment planning for brachytherapy: An integer programming model, two computational approaches and experiments with permanent prostate implant planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 145-165

  Lee, Eva K ^a   Gallagher, Richard J ^b   Silvern, David ^c   Wuu, Cheng Shie ^d   Zaider, Marco ^e  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d Department of Orthopaedic Surgery   (United States)

^e MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0032892473     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/1/012     Document Type: Article

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