Acceleration of intensity-modulated radiotherapy dose calculation by importance sampling of the calculation matrices

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 676-681

  Thieke, Christian ^a   Nill, Simeon ^a   Oelfke, Uwe ^a   Bortfeld, Thomas ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose calculation; IMRT; Inverse planning; Pencil beam; Random sampling

Indexed keywords

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSE CALCULATION; IMRT; INVERSE PLANNING; PENCIL BEAM; RANDOM SAMPLING;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MEMORY; DOSE CALCULATION; ENERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; SAMPLING; VELOCITY; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; PHOTON; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0035999394     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1469633     Document Type: Article

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