Ultrafast treatment plan optimization for volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT)

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5787-5791

  Men, Chunhua ^a   Romeijn, H Edwin ^b   Jia, Xun ^a   Jiang, Steve B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

column generation method; GPU; plan optimization; VMAT

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; COST FUNCTIONS; EFFICIENCY; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATLAB; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

COLUMN GENERATION; COLUMN GENERATION APPROACH; CONVEX PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; VMAT; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 78149434148     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3491675     Document Type: Article

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