Real-time inverse planning for Gamma Knife radiosurgery

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2988-2995

  Wu, Q Jackie ^a,b   Chankong, Vira ^b   Jitprapaikulsarn, Suradet ^b   Wessels, Barry W ^a   Einstein, Douglas B ^a   Mathayomchan, Boonyanit ^b   Kinsella, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma Knife; Inverse planning; Optimization; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; GAMMA KNIFE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; INVERSE PLANNING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; RADIOSURGERY;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0344393790     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1621463     Document Type: Article

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