Comparative analysis of Pareto surfaces in multi-criteria IMRT planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3669-3684

  Teichert, K ^a   Suss P ^a   Serna, J I ^a   Monz, M ^a   Kufer K H ^a   Thieke, C ^b,c  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL MATHEMATICS ITWM   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM ANGLE; BEAM CONFIGURATION; BEAM DIRECTION; CLASSICAL METHODS; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CONVEX OBJECTIVES; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; FREE PARAMETERS; INTENSITY PROFILES; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTICRITERIA OPTIMIZATION; OBJECTIVE SPACE; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; ORGANS AT RISKS; PARETO SET; PARETO SURFACE; SPINAL CORDS; TREATMENT PLANS; TREATMENT TECHNIQUES; TUMOR COVERAGE;

PARETO PRINCIPLE;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 79958098775     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/12/014     Document Type: Article

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