Reducing dose calculation time for accurate iterative IMRT planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 231-237

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

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose accuracy; Dose calculations; IMRT

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PATIENT TREATMENT;

COMPUTATION METHODOLOGIES; CORRECTION MATRIX; CORRECTION METHOD; DOSE ACCURACY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; IMRT; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; HYBRID; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0036168117     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1446112     Document Type: Article

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