A fast integration method and its application in a medical physics problem

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

Volumn 3984 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 789-797

  Li, Shujun ^a   De Doncker, Elise ^a   Kaugars, Karlis ^a   Li, Haisen S ^b  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRATION; INTERPOLATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

FLUENCE MAP OPTIMIZATION (FMO); INTENSITY MODULATED PROTON THERAPY (IMPT); NUMERICAL INTEGRATION METHOD;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 33745956133     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11751649_87     Document Type: Conference Paper

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