Treatment planning for prostate brachytherapy using region of interest adjoint functions and a greedy heuristic

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 4077-4090

  Yoo, Sua ^a   Kowalok, Michael E ^a   Thomadsen, Bruce R ^a   Henderson, Douglass L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DOSIMETRY; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT TREATMENT;

PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0347597916     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/24/006     Document Type: Article

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