Reduced-order parameter optimization for simplifying prostate IMRT planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 849-870

  Lu, Renzhi ^a   Radke, Richard J ^a   Happersett, Laura ^b   Yang, Jie ^b   Chui, Chen Shou ^b,c   Yorke, Ellen ^b   Jackson, Andrew ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Sun Yat Sen Cancer Center   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; LIGHT MODULATION; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROSTHETICS;

INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY (IMRT); OUTER-LOOP OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; TUNABLE PARAMETERS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; ALGORITHM; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; PROSTATE TUMOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34047261599     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/3/022     Document Type: Article

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