Optimizing the delivery of radiation therapy to cancer patients

SIAM Review

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 721-744

  Shepard, David M ^a   Ferris, Michael C ^b   Olivera, Gustavo H ^a   Mackie, T Rockwell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

TOMOTHERAPY;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0033309418     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036144598342032     Document Type: Article

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