Variation method for inverse treatment planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 356-363

  Liu, Yi ^a,b   Yin, Fang Fang ^a   Gao, Qinghuai ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Optical Gaging Products Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Intensity modulated radiation therapy; Inverse treatment planning; Radiation therapys; Variation method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GRAPHIC METHODS; RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; INTENSITY FUNCTIONS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED; INVERSE PLANNING METHODS; INVERSE TREATMENT; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; VARIATION METHOD;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION PHYSICS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0033021924     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598525     Document Type: Article

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