Segment-based dose optimization using a genetic algorithm

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 2987-2998

  Cotrutz, Christian ^a   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MUTAGENESIS; OPTIMIZATION;

INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY (IMRT);

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; GENETIC ALGORITHM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0141670416     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/18/303     Document Type: Article

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