A self-collimating convolution backprojection algorithm for optimizing dose distributions of I-125 prostate implants

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 241-249

  Alfredo, R ^a   Siochi, C ^a,b   Elson, Howard R ^a   Foster, Alvis E ^a   Lamba, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

backprojection; brachytherapy; inverse solution; optimization

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS; UROLOGY;

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; BACK-PROJECTION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONVOLUTION BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHMS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; INVERSE SOLUTION; IRREGULAR GEOMETRIES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

IODINE 125;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION PHYSICS;

EID: 8044242922     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598057     Document Type: Article

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