A novel approach to multi-criteria inverse planning for IMRT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 6339-6353

  Breedveld, Sebastiaan ^a   Storchi, Pascal R M ^a   Keijzer, Marleen ^b   Heemink, Arnold W ^b   Heijmen, Ben J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; TUMORS;

DOSE-VOLUME; MAXIMUM-DOSE CONSTRAINT VIOLATIONS; MULTI-CRITERIA INVERSE PLANNING; TIME CONSUMING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOSIMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; ONCOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 36048950335     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/20/016     Document Type: Article

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