Integrated multicriterial optimization of beam angles and intensity profiles for coplanar and noncoplanar head and neck IMRT and implications for VMAT

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4858-4865

  Voet, Peter W J ^a   Breedveld, Sebastiaan ^a   Dirkx, Maarten L P ^a   Levendag, Peter C ^a   Heijmen, Ben J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

head and neck; multicriterial optimization; VMAT

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED GENERATION; HEAD AND NECK; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; INTEGRATED OPTIMIZATION; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; NORMAL TISSUE SPARING; SUBMANDIBULAR GLANDS; VMAT;

EID: 84864675983     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4736803     Document Type: Article

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