Beam orientation optimization for intensity-modulated radiation therapy using mixed integer programming

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 3653-3666

  Yang, Ruijie ^a   Dai, Jianrong ^a   Yang, Yong ^b   Hu, Yimin ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

BEAM ORIENTATION OPTIMIZATION; BEAMLET WEIGHTS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY (IMRT); OPTIMIZATION EFFICIENCY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION BEAM; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMPUTERS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33746560640     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/15/004     Document Type: Article

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