A unified framework for 3D radiation therapy and IMRT planning: Plan optimization in the beamlet domain by constraining or regularizing the fluence map variations

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Meng, B ^a   Zhu, L ^c   Widrow, B ^b   Boyd, S ^b   Xing, L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMLETS; BRAIN CANCER; FLUENCES; HEAD AND NECK; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; OPTIMAL PLAN; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; PIECE-WISE; RADIATION THERAPY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPECIAL FORMS; TOTAL-VARIATION; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 78650008139     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/22/N01     Document Type: Article

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