Shortening treatment time in robotic radiosurgery using a novel node reduction technique

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1397-1405

  Van De Water, Steven ^a   Hoogeman, Mischa S ^a   Breedveld, Sebastiaan ^a   Heijmen, Ben J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

beam angle optimization; inverse planning; optimization; robotic radiosurgery; treatment time reduction

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

BEAM ANGLE OPTIMIZATION; CONSTRAINT VIOLATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; INVERSE OPTIMIZATION; INVERSE PLANNING; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT PLANS; TREATMENT TIME;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 79952165911     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3549765     Document Type: Article

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