Fast direct Monte Carlo optimization using the inverse kernel approach

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4051-4067

  Bogner, Ludwig ^a   Alt, Marco ^a   Dirscherl, Thomas ^a   Morgenstern, Ingo ^a   Latscha, Christof ^a   Rickhey, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL PARAMETERS; DIRECT APERTURE OPTIMIZATIONS; FLUENCES; KERNEL APPROACHES; KERNEL METHODS; KERNEL OPTIMIZATIONS; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO OPTIMIZATION; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PLAN QUALITY; SIMULATED ANNEALING OPTIMIZATION; TIME REDUCTION; TREATMENT PLANS;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

ACCURACY; ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; SIMULATION; TIME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 70249115193     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/13/007     Document Type: Article

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