Brachytherapy optimal planning with application to intravascular radiation therapy

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 223-236

  Sadegh, Payman ^a,b   Mourtada, Firas A ^c,d   Taylor, Russell H ^a   Andersen, James H ^c  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intravascular brachytherapy; Linear program; Optimization; Radiotherapy; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; INTIMA; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECURRENCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 0033182556     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(99)80021-8     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Bazaraa, M. S., Jarvis, J. J. and Sherali, H. D. (1990) Linear Programming and Network Flows. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
2. Chan, R., Xi, H., Walsh, C., Minitz., G., C. Yang, N. and Waksman, R. (1998) Three-dimensional treatment planning system for evaluating intravascular brachytherapy protocols. Poster presentation at Advances in Cardiovascular Radiation Therapy II, Washington, DC.
3. Crocker, I. and Waksman, R. (1997) Endovascular brachytherapy. In Nag, S. (ed.), Principles and Practice of Brachytherapy, pp. 689-701. Futura Publishing Co., Armonk, NY.
4. Dantzig, G. B. (1963) Linear Programming and Extensions. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
5. Diamond, D. A. and Vesely, T. A. (1998) The role of radiation therapy in the management of vascular restenosis. Part II. Radiation techniques and results. J. Vascular Intervent. Radiol., 9, 389-400.
6. Hendee, W. R. and Ibbott, G. S. (1996) Radiation Therapy Physics, 2nd edn. Mosby, Chicago, IL.
7. Hilaris, B. S., Nori, D. and Anderson, L. L. (1988) Atlas of Brachytherapy. Macmillan Publishing Company, New York.
8. 192Ir radioactive seed ribbon. In Waksman. R. and Serruys, P. W. (eds), Handbook of Vascular Brachytherapy. Martin Dunitz Ltd, London.
9. Kelley, J. L. (1960) The cutting plane method for solving convex problems. J. Soc. Indus. Appl. Math., VIII, 703-712.
10. Khan, K M. (1994) Brachytherapy. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD.
11. Laarse, R. V. D. and Prins, T. P. H. (1994) Introduction to HDR Brachytherapy Optimization, Chapter 35. Nucletron International B.V., The Netherlands.
12. Luenberger, D. (1984) Linear and Nonlinear Programming, 2nd edn. Addison Wesley, Reading, MA.
13. McPherson, D. D. (1996) Three-dimensional arterial imaging. Sci. Am. Sci. Med., 3, 22-31.
14. Menguy, Y., Cinquin, P., Troccaz., J., Vassal, P., Giraud, J. Y., Dusserre, A. and Bolla, M. (1997) External radiotherapy of prostatic carcinoma: a quadratic optimization of the dose distribution. In CVRMed-MRCAS'97, 1st Joint Conf., Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robotics in Medicine and Medical Robotics and Computer-Assisted Surgery Proc., pp. 675-684.
15. Mohan, R., Mageras, G. S. and Baldwin, B. (1992) Clinically relevant optimization of 3D conformal treatments. Med. Phys., 19, 933-944.
16. Mould, R. K (1994) Radium Brachytherapy: Historical Review, Chapter 1. Nucletron International B.V., The Netherlands.
17. Murty, K. G. (1986) Linear Programming. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
18. Nath, R. and Liu, L. (1997) On the depth of penetration of photons and electrons for intravascular brachytherapy. Med. Phys., 24, 1358. Abstract.
19. Nath, R., Anderson, L. L., Luxton, G., Weaver, K. A., Williamson, J. K and Meigooni, A. S. (1995) Dosimetry of interstitial brachytherapy sources: recommendations of the AAPM radiation therapy committee task group no. 43. Med. Phys., 22, 209-234.
20. Niemierko, A. and Goitein, M. (1992) Optimization of 3D radiation therapy with both physical and biological end points and constraints. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys., 23, 99-108.
21. Niemierko, A. and Goitein, M. (1993) Implementation of a model for estimating tumor control probability for an inhomogeneously irradiated volume. Radiother. Oncol., 29, 140-147.
22. Prause, G. P. M., DeJong, S. C., McKay, C. R. and Sonka, M. (1996) Geometrically correct 3D reconstruction of coronary wall and plaque: combining biplane angiography and intravascular ultrasound. In Proc. Computers in Cardiology, Indianapolis, IN, 8-11 September, pp. 325-328.
23. Saigal, R. (1994) Linear Programming, a Modern Integrated Analysis. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
24. Schweikard, A., Tombropoulos, R., Kavraki, L., Adler, J. R. and Latombe, J. C. (1994) Treatment planning for a radiosurgical system with general kinematics. In Proc. 1994 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 1720-1727.
25. Swan, G. W. (1981) Optimization of Human Cancer Radiotherapy. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
26. Teirstein, P. S., Massullo, V. and Jani, S. (1997) Cathether-based radiotherapy to inhibit restenosis after coronary stenting. New England J. Med., 336, 1697-1703.
27. Waksman, R. (1996) Radiation for prevention of restenosis: where are we? Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys., 36, 959-961.
28. Webb, S. (1991) Optimization by simulated annealing of three dimensional conformal treatment planning for radiation fields defined by a multileaf collimator. Phys. Med. Biol., 36, 1201-1226.
29. Webb, S. (1993) The Physics of Three Dimensional Radiation Therapy, Medical Science Series. Institute of Physics Publishing. Bristol.
30. Yu, Y. (1997) Multiobjective decision theory for computational optimization in radiation therapy. Med. Phys., 24, 1445-1454.
31. Zangwill, W. I. (1969) Nonlinear Programming: a Unified Approach. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.