Optimization of photon beam energy in aperture-based inverse planning

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 36-54

  St Hilaire, Jason ^a   Sévigny, Caroline ^a   Beaulieu, Frédéric ^a   Gingras, Luc ^a   Tremblay, Daniel ^a   Beaulieu, Luc ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aperture based IMRT; Energy optimization; Intensity modulation; Inverse planning; Optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649301130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v10i4.3012     Document Type: Article

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