Geometrically based optimization for extracranial radiosurgery

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 987-996

  Liu, Ruiguo ^a   Wagner, Thomas H ^b   Buatti, John M ^a   Modrick, Joseph ^a   Dill, John ^a   Meeks, Sanford L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY; VECTORS;

CONFORMALITY; RADIOSURGERY; STATIC BEAMS;

SURGERY;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOSURGERY; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 1642487656     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/6/009     Document Type: Article

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