An approach to multiobjective optimization of rotational therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3292-3303

  Pardo Montero, Juan ^a   Fenwick, John D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Physics ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

IMAT; Multiobjective optimization; Rotational therapy; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY;

CRITICAL STRUCTURES; DIFFERENT TREATMENTS; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; IMAT; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; ROTATIONAL THERAPY; TOMOTHERAPY;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION ROTATIONAL THERAPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; ROTATION; TOMOTHERAPY;

EID: 67649631509     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3151806     Document Type: Article

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