Beamlet dose distribution compression and reconstruction using wavelets for intensity modulated treatment planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 368-375

  Zakarian, Constantine ^a   Deasya, Joseph O ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamlets; Intensity modulated radiation therapy; Treatment planning; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

BEAMLETS; COMPRESSION PERFORMANCE; DIGITAL WAVELET TRANSFORMS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT PLANNING; WAVELET BASIS FUNCTIONS; WAVELETS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CALCULATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 1242316311     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1636560     Document Type: Article

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