Examination of the effect of increasing the number of radiation beams on a radiation treatment plan

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 3485-3501

  Crooks, Steven M ^a   Pugachev, Andrei ^a   King, Christopher ^a   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

BEAMLETS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION RESPONSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPINE TUMOR; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0037037758     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/19/304     Document Type: Article

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