Reduction of computational dimensionality in inverse radiotherapy planning using sparse matrix operations

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2001, Pages

  Cho, Paul S ^a   Phillips, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; SAMPLING; TISSUE; VECTORS;

MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR;

RADIOTHERAPY;

COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEMORY; MODULATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SAMPLING; TISSUE; VARIANCE;

HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0035005898     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/46/5/402     Document Type: Note

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