Multi-species prostate implant treatment plans incorporating 192Ir and 125I using a Greedy Heuristic based 3D optimization algorithm

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 436-444

  Chaswal, V ^a   Yoo, S ^b   Thomadsen, B R ^a   Henderson, D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint functions; Brachytherapy; Greedy heuristic; Multi species; Prostate implants

Indexed keywords

NEEDLES; ONCOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE; UROLOGY;

ADJOINT FUNCTIONS; BRACHYTHERAPY; GREEDY HEURISTICS; MULTI SPECIES; PROSTATE IMPLANTS;

IRIDIUM COMPOUNDS;

IODINE 125; IRIDIUM 192;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECTUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; URETHRA;

EID: 33846646460     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2400827     Document Type: Article

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