Optimization algorithm for overlapping-field plans of scanned ion beam therapy with reduced sensitivity to range and setup uncertainties

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1653-1669

  Inaniwa, Taku ^a   Kanematsu, Nobuyuki ^a   Furukawa, Takuji ^a   Noda, Koji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM THERAPY; CALCULATION TIME; COLD SPOTS; CONVENTIONAL OPTIMIZATION; DOSE GRADIENTS; EXTREME CASE; FIELD JUNCTIONS; FIELD SIZE; FLUENCES; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; REDUCED SENSITIVITY; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; SETUP ERRORS; SETUP UNCERTAINTY; SIMULATION STUDIES; TARGET VOLUMES;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; ERRORS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ION BEAMS; ION BOMBARDMENT; IONS; OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHMS;

ION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNCERTAINTY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IONS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 79952948045     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/6/009     Document Type: Article

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