Discrete approximations to real-valued leaf sequencing problems in radiation therapy

Discrete Applied Mathematics

Volumn 156, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 3178-3186

  Gunawardena, Athula ^a,b   Meyer, Robert R ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

Author keywords

IMRT; Leaf sequencing problems; Radiation

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CURVE FITTING; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; PHYSICAL THERAPY; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; RADIOTHERAPY; SET THEORY; TURBULENT FLOW;

APPROXIMATION ERRORS; BINARY MATRIXES; CONSTRAINED LEAST SQUARES; DISCRETE; DISCRETE APPROXIMATIONS; IMRT; IMRT ALGORITHMS; INTENSITY MODULATED; LEAF SEQUENCING; LEAF SEQUENCING PROBLEMS; NP-HARD; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; POSITIVE NUMBERS; RADIATION THERAPIES; REAL MATRIXES; RELATIVE ERRORS; SET PARTITIONING; TREATMENT PLANS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 55049083840     PISSN: 0166218X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dam.2008.05.022     Document Type: Article

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