Dosimetric comparison of inverse optimization with geometric optimization in combination with graphical optimization for HDR prostate implants

Journal of Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 89-94

  Jamema, Swamidas ^a,b   Saju, Sherly ^a   Shetty, Umesh ^a   Pallad, Siddanna ^a   Deshpande, D ^a   Shrivastava, S ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^b TMH   (India)

Author keywords

Anatomy based inverse optimization; Geometric optimization; Prostate HDR implant dosimetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746870076     PISSN: 09716203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0971-6203.26694     Document Type: Article

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