Search for IMRT inverse plans with piecewise constant fluence maps using compressed sensing techniques

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1895-1905

  Zhu, Lei ^a   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compressed sensing; Inverse planning; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSED SENSING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INVERSE PLANNING; MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PIECE-WISE CONSTANTS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 65449189159     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3110163     Document Type: Article

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