Fast, multiple optimizations of quadratic dose objective functions in IMRT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3569-3579

  Breedveld, Sebastiaan ^a   Storchi, Pascal R M ^a   Keijzer, Marleen ^b   Heijmen, Ben J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; RADIOTHERAPY; VECTORS;

COMPUTER MEMORY; MATRIX-VECTOR; QUADRATIC DOSE OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; SPARSE MATRICES;

DOSIMETRY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER MEMORY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION;

ALGORITHMS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 33745808394     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/14/019     Document Type: Article

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