Inverse treatment planning by physically constrained minimization of a biological objective function

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2948-2958

  Stavrev, P ^a,b   Hristov, D ^c   Warkentin, B ^a   Sham, E ^b   Stavreva, N ^a   Fallone, B G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological objectives; Continuous penalty function; Inverse treatment planing; NTCP

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL OBJECTIVES; CONSTRAINED MINIMIZATION PROBLEM; INVERSE TREATMENT; NORMAL TISSUE COMPLICATION PROBABILITIES; NORMAL-TISSUE COMPLICATION PROBABILITY MODELS; NTCP; PENALTY FUNCTION; PENALTY FUNCTION METHODS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; HYBRIDIZATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOBIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0344393791     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1617411     Document Type: Article

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