On the role of modeling parameters in IMRT plan optimization

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 4907-4926

  Krause, Michael ^a   Scherrer, Alexander ^b   Thieke, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL MATHEMATICS ITWM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; ELASTICITY; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; FUNCTIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

CRITICAL PARAMETERS; EVALUATION FUNCTIONS; GENERALIZED EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE; IMRT PLANNING; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; INVERSE PLANNING; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELING PARAMETERS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; OPENING ANGLES; OPTIMIZ ATION PROBLEMS; PARAMETER SETTINGS; PARAMETER VALUES; PLANNING PROBLEMS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ELASTICITY; GEOMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARAMETER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 51849140372     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/18/004     Document Type: Article

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