Inverse planning for IMRT with nonuniform beam profiles using total-variation regularization (TVR)

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-66

  Kim, Taeho ^a,b   Zhu, Lei ^c   Suh, Tae Suk ^b   Geneser, Sarah ^a   Meng, Bowen ^d   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

compressed sensing; flattening filter; IMRT; inverse planning; total variation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPRESSED SENSING; DETERIORATION; IMAGE DENOISING; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

FLATTENING FILTER FREE; FLATTENING FILTERS; IMRT; INVERSE PLANNING; PIECE-WISE CONSTANTS; SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATIONS; TOTAL VARIATION; TOTAL VARIATION REGULARIZATION;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 78650906335     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3521465     Document Type: Article

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