The dose-volume constraint satisfaction problem for inverse treatment planning with field segments

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 601-616

  Michalski, Darek ^a   Xiao, Ying ^a   Censor, Yair ^b   Galvin, James M ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY;

INVERSE TREATMENT; PRESCRIPTION PARAMETERS;

DOSIMETRY;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEOMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1342288377     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/4/010     Document Type: Article

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