Adaptive diffusion smoothing: A diffusion-based method to reduce IMRT field complexity

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1532-1546

  Matuszak, Martha M ^a   Larsen, Edward W ^a   Jee, Kyung Wook ^a   McShan, Daniel L ^a   Fraass, Benedick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam complexity; Diffusion smoothing; IMRT optimization

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; DOSIMETRY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MODULATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

ADAPTIVE DIFFUSIONS; BEAM COMPLEXITY; DIFFUSION SMOOTHING; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM; SMOOTHING ALGORITHMS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); WEIGHTED COST FUNCTIONS;

DIFFUSION;

ACCURACY; ADAPTIVE DIFFUSION SMOOTHING; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DOSIMETRY; HEAD; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NECK; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 41449090784     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2889703     Document Type: Article

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