Minimizing beam-on time in cancer radiation treatment using multileaf collimators

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Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 226-240

  Boland, Natashia ^a   Hamacher, Horst W ^b   Lenzen, Frank ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b France   (Germany)

^c ACCENTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer radiation treatment; Integer programming; Intensity modulated radiation treatment (IMRT); Multileaf collimator; Network flow with side constraints

Indexed keywords

LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TUMORS;

CANCER RADIATION TREATMENT; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION TREATMENT (IMRT); MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; NETWORK FLOW WITH SIDE CONSTRAINTS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 3042561467     PISSN: 00283045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/net.20007     Document Type: Article

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