Constrained treatment planning using sequential beam selection

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2133-2149

  Woudstra, E ^a   Storchi, P R M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 0033868457     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/8/306     Document Type: Article

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