ICycle: Integrated, multicriterial beam angle, and profile optimization for generation of coplanar and noncoplanar IMRT plans

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 951-963

  Breedveld, Sebastiaan ^a   Storchi, Pascal R M ^a   Voet, Peter W J ^a   Heijmen, Ben J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

intensity modulation; optimization; treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PATIENT MONITORING;

BEAM ANGLE OPTIMIZATION; CLINICAL APPLICATION; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; OBJECTIVE PRIORITY; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PROFILE OPTIMIZATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 84856962314     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3676689     Document Type: Article

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