Segmentation and leaf sequencing for intensity modulated arc therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1779-1788

  Gladwish, Adam ^a,b   Oliver, Mike ^a,b   Craig, Jeff ^a   Chen, Jeff ^a,b   Bauman, Glenn ^b   Fisher, Barbara ^b   Wong, Eugene ^a,b  

^a LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arc therapy; IMAT; IMRT; Leaf sequencing; Segmentation; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

BUSES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY;

ARC THERAPY; IMAT; IMRT; LEAF SEQUENCING; TOMOTHERAPY;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 34247582423     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2724064     Document Type: Article

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