Efficient IMRT inverse planning with a new L1-solver: Template for first-order conic solver

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4139-4153

  Kim, Hojin ^a,b   Suh, Tae Suk ^c   Lee, Rena ^d   Xing, Lei ^a   Li, Ruijiang ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^d Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM PARAMETERS; COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; CONVERGENCE CRITERION; DOSE DELIVERY; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; FIRST-ORDER; FLUENCES; HEAD AND NECK; HESSIAN MATRICES; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INVERSE PLANNING; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SECOND ORDERS; TOTAL-VARIATION; UNIQUE FEATURES;

ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RADIATION DOSE;

ALGORITHMS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84862570011     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/13/4139     Document Type: Article

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