A modified genetic algorithm for the beam angle optimization problem in intensity-modulated radiotherapy planning

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3871 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 97-106

  Li, Yongjie ^a   Yao, Dezhong ^a   Zheng, Jiancheng ^b   Yao, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Topslane Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTATION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LIGHT; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

BEAM ANGLE OPTIMIZATION (BAO); BEAM ORIENTATION CONSTRAINTS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY (IMRT); SEARCH SPACE;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33745742860     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11740698_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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