Therapeutic treatment plan optimization with probability density-based dose prescription

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 655-666

  Lian, Jun ^a   Cotrutz, Cristian ^a   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose optimization; IMRT; Inverse planning; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DOSE OPTIMIZATION; IMRT; INVERSE PLANNING; ITERATIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; THERAPEUTIC TREATMENTS;

SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0037393195     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1561622     Document Type: Article

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