Using total-variation regularization for intensity modulated radiation therapy inverse planning with field-specific numbers of segments

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 6653-6672

  Zhu, Lei ^a   Lee, Louis ^a   Ma, Yunzhi ^a   Ye, Yinyu ^b   Mazzeo, Rafe ^a   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCEPTANCE CRITERIONS; BEAM INTENSITIES; BEAMLET; DIRECT APERTURE OPTIMIZATIONS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; EXISTING METHODS; HEAD AND NECKS; INTENSITY MAPS; INTENSITY MODULATED; INVERSE PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; PLANNING SYSTEMS; QUADRATIC OPTIMIZATIONS; RADIATION THERAPIES; RANDOM SEARCHES; SEQUENCING ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL LEVELS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANS; TWO TYPES; VARIATION REGULARIZATIONS;

CONFORMAL MAPPING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 58149242616     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/23/002     Document Type: Article

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