On the implementation of dose-volume objectives in gradient algorithms for inverse treatment planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 848-856

  Hristov, D ^a   Stavrev, P ^a,b   Sham, E ^a   Fallone, B G ^b  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dose volume constraints; Gradient; Inverse treatment planing; Penalty function; Steepest descent

Indexed keywords

GRADIENT METHODS; STEEPEST DESCENT METHOD;

CONSTRAINT VIOLATION; DOSE-VOLUME; GRADIENT CALCULATIONS; INVERSE TREATMENT; MINIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PENALTY FUNCTION; PENALTY FUNCTION APPROACH; STEEPEST DESCENT ALGORITHM;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; LUNG; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRY; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0035999412     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1469629     Document Type: Article

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