Inverse planning for intensity-modulated are therapy using direct aperture optimization

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1075-1089

  Earl, M A ^a   Shepard, D M ^a   Naqvi, S ^a   Li, X A ^a   Yu, C X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING;

INTENSITY-MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 0038705898     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/8/309     Document Type: Article

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