Algorithms for the optimization of RBE-weighted dose in particle therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 275-286

  Horcicka, M ^a,b   Meyer, C ^c   Buschbacher, A ^b   Durante, M ^a,b   Kramer M ^a  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; CARBON IONS; COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; CONJUGATED GRADIENT; CONVERGENCE SPEED; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE OPTIMIZATION; ITERATION PROCEDURE; LOCAL EFFECTS; METHOD OF STEEPEST DESCENT; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION SOLVERS; PARTICLE THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TREATMENT PLANS;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; OPTIMIZATION;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 84871563507     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/2/275     Document Type: Article

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