Optimized bounding boxes for three-dimensional treatment planning in brachytherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2333-2342

  Lahanas, M ^a   Kemmerer, T ^a   Milickovic, N ^a   Karouzakis, K ^a,b   Baltas, D ^a,b   Zamboglou, N ^a,b  

^a Klinikum Offenbach GmbH   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Geometrical optimization; Minimum bounding box

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ONCOLOGY;

APPROXIMATION METHODS; BOUNDING BOX; BRACHYTHERAPY; GEOMETRIC TRANSFORMATIONS; GEOMETRICAL OPTIMIZATION; N-DIMENSIONAL SPACE; ORIENTED BOUNDING BOX; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0033752679     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1312808     Document Type: Article

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