A graph-searching method for MLC leaf sequencing under constraints

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1504-1511

  Chen, Yan ^a   Hou, Qing ^b   Galvin, James M ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; GRAPH ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY LEVELS; INTENSITY PATTERNS; INTERDIGITATIONS; ITERATIVE PROCESS; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SINGLE SEGMENTS;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COLLIMATOR; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

MUS;

EID: 3042689584     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1737512     Document Type: Article

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