Dose-volume objectives in multi-criteria optimization

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 3809-3818

  Halabi, Tarek ^a   Craft, David ^a   Bortfeld, Thomas ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; OPTIMIZATION; TUMORS;

COMPUTATION TIME; DOSE-VOLUME (DV) CONSTRAINT; MULTI-CRITERIA OPTIMIZATION (MCO); SKULL BASED TUMOUR CASE;

DRUG DOSAGE;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SKULL BASE TUMOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SKULL NEOPLASMS; SOFTWARE; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33746521165     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/15/014     Document Type: Article

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