Tools for the analysis of dose optimization: III. Pointwise sensitivity and perturbation analysis

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 6337-6343

  Sobotta, B ^a   Sohn M ^a   Putz M ^a   Alber, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; COST FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

ACTIVE CONSTRAINTS; COLD SPOTS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE OPTIMIZATIONS; NORMAL TISSUES; OPTIMAL DOSES; PERTURBATION ANALYSES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; TUMOR CONTROLS;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58149235050     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/22/005     Document Type: Article

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