Uncertainty incorporated beam angle optimization for IMPT treatment planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 5248-5256

  Cao, Wenhua ^a   Lim, Gino J ^a   Lee, Andrew ^b   Li, Yupeng ^b   Liu, Wei ^b   Ronald Zhu, X ^b   Zhang, Xiaodong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

beam angle optimization; IMPT; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; PHOTONS; PROTON BEAM THERAPY; PROTON BEAMS; RADIOTHERAPY; SIMULATED ANNEALING; UROLOGY;

BEAM ANGLE OPTIMIZATION; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION THERAPY; IMPT; INTENSITY MODULATED PROTON THERAPIES; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LOCAL NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCHES; LOCAL SEARCH ALGORITHM; UNCERTAINTY;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84864699522     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4737870     Document Type: Article

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