Including robustness in multi-criteria optimization for intensity-modulated proton therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 591-608

  Chen, Wei ^a   Unkelbach, Jan ^a   Trofimov, Alexei ^a   Madden, Thomas ^a   Kooy, Hanne ^a   Bortfeld, Thomas ^a   Craft, David ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAINSTEM; CHORDOMA; GRID RESOLUTION; LINEAR PROJECTIONS; MULTICRITERIA OPTIMIZATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION VALUES; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PARETO SURFACE; PARETO-OPTIMAL; PENCIL BEAM; PLAN QUALITY; PROBLEM SIZE; PROTON THERAPY; RANGE ERROR; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION METHOD; ROBUST PLANNING; SAFETY MARGIN; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANS;

COMMERCE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ERRORS; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS;

PARETO PRINCIPLE;

PROTON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN TUMOR; CHORDOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKULL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BRAIN STEM; CHORDOMA; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKULL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84856110709     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/3/591     Document Type: Article

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