A deterministic iterative least-squares algorithm for beam weight optimization in conformal radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1647-1658

  Chen, Yan ^a   Michalski, Darek ^a   Houser, Christopher ^a   Galvin, James M ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PLANNING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

BEAM WEIGHT;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMAN; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; HUMANS;

EID: 0037150014     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/10/303     Document Type: Article

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