Accelerating IMRT optimization by voxel sampling

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 7211-7228

  Martin, Benjamin C ^a   Bortfeld, Thomas R ^b   Castãon, David A ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; DOSIMETRY; GRADIENT METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SAMPLING;

ACCELERATING INTENSITY; VOXEL SAMPLING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SPINAL CORD; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, REGIONAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

EID: 36949039932     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/24/002     Document Type: Article

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