Inverse radiation therapy planning - A multiple objective optimization approach

Discrete Applied Mathematics

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 145-161

  Hamacher, H W ^a   Kufer K H ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL MATHEMATICS ITWM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Goal programming; Intensity modulated radiation therapy; Medical physics; Multicriteria linear programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867961843     PISSN: 0166218X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-218X(01)00261-X     Document Type: Article

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