Mountain reduction, block matching, and applications in intensity-modulated radiation therapy

Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 35-44

  Chen, Danny Z ^a   Hu, Xiaobo S ^a   Luan, Shuang ^b   Wang, Chao ^a   Wu, Xiaodong ^c  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b MSC01 1070   (United States)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Block matching; IMRT; Leaf sequencing; Mountain reduction; Profile preserving cutting; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATA ACQUISITION; DIAGNOSIS; TUMORS;

BLOCK MATCHING; LEAF SEQUENCING; MOUNTAIN REDUCTION; PROFILE-PRESERVING CUTTING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 33244463498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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