A role for biological optimization within the current treatment planning paradigm

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4672-4682

  Das, Shiva ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological optimization; IMRT; Optimization

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; EYE PROTECTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL METRICS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; PROBABILITY MODELS; RADIATION-INDUCED TOXICITY;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ESTHESIONEUROBLASTOMA; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 70349659691     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3220211     Document Type: Article

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