The use of mixed-integer programming for inverse treatment planning with pre-defined field segments

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2002, Pages 2235-2245

  Bednarz, Greg ^a   Michalski, Darek ^a   Houser, Chris ^a   Huq, M Saiful ^a   Xiao, Ying ^a   Anne, Pramila Rani ^a   Galvin, James M ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DOSIMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TUMORS;

TREATMENT PLANNING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; OROPHARYNX TUMOR; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMAN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; HUMANS;

EID: 0037036519     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/13/304     Document Type: Article

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