Harmony search in therapeutic medical physics

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 191, Issue , 2009, Pages 189-203

  Panchal, Aditya ^a  

^a ADVOCATE LUTHERAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Harmony search; Medical Physics; Optimization; Radiation Oncology

Indexed keywords

EID: 62549100518     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00185-7_12     Document Type: Article

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