Automated gamma knife radiosurgery treatment planning with image registration, data-mining, and Nelder-Mead simplex optimization

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2532-2540

  Lee, Kuan J ^a   Barber, David C ^b   Walton, Lee ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c National Centre for Stereotactic Radiosurgery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data mining; Image registration; Planning; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

IMAGE REGISTRATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; PLANNING; RADIOTHERAPY;

GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GAMMA-KNIFE TREATMENT; NELDER-MEAD SIMPLEX; NELDER-MEAD SIMPLEX METHODS; RADIOSURGERY; SIMPLEX OPTIMIZATION; TREATMENT PARAMETERS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DATA MINING;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DATA ANALYSIS; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MENINGIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 33745646988     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2207314     Document Type: Article

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