Inherent smoothness of intensity patterns for intensity modulated radiation therapy generated by simultaneous projection algorithms

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 3227-3245

  Xiao, Ying ^a   Michalski, Darek ^a   Censor, Yair ^b   Galvin, James M ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY (IMRT); MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS (MLC);

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTIMIZATION;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HISTOGRAM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RECTUM CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 4344687555     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/14/015     Document Type: Article

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