Configuration space analysis of common cost functions in radiotherapy beam-weight optimization algorithms

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 65-77

  Rowbottom, Carl Graham ^a,b   Webb, Steve ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COSTS; DOSIMETRY; OPTIMIZATION;

CONFIGURATION SPACE ANALYSIS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOTHERAPY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0036146795     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/1/305     Document Type: Article

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