A new smoothing procedure to reduce delivery segments for static MLC-based IMRT planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1158-1165

  Sun, Xuepeng ^a   Xia, Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; DISEASES; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA; ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; OROPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMATA; SIMULATED ANNEALING OPTIMIZATION; SMOOTHING METHODS; SMOOTHING PROCESS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COLLIMATOR; COST; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; WEIGHT;

EID: 2442656579     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1713279     Document Type: Article

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