Interior point algorithms: Guaranteed optimality for fluence map optimization in IMRT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 5467-5482

  Aleman, Dionne M ^a   Glaser, Daniel ^b   Romeijn, H Edwin ^c   Dempsey, James F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d ViewRay Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 78149295129     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/18/013     Document Type: Article

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