Acceleration of dose calculations for intensity-modulated radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 903-910

  Siebers, Jeffrey V ^a   Tong, Shidong ^a   Lauterbach, Marc ^a   Wu, Qiuwen ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose accuracy; IMRT; Radiation dose calculations

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSE ACCURACY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; IMRT; INITIAL OPTIMIZATION; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0034977529     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1373404     Document Type: Article

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