Smoothing intensity-modulated beam profiles to improve the efficiency of delivery

Medical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2105-2112

  Spirou, S V ^a   Fournier Bidoz, N ^a   Yang, J ^a   Chui, C S ^a   Ling, C C ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Filtering; Intensity modulated radiation therapy; Inverse planning; Optimization; Savitzky Golay; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

FILTRATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED; INVERSE PLANNING; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION CRITERIA; SAVITZKY-GOLAY; SMOOTHING;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NASOPHARYNX; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; SPINE;

EID: 0034768709     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1406522     Document Type: Article

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