Comparison of beam angle selection strategies for intracranial IMRT

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bangert, Mark ^a   Ziegenhein, Peter ^a   Oelfke, Uwe ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

beam angle optimization; high performance computing; intensity modulated radiation therapy; treatment planning

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION;

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; BEAM ANGLE OPTIMIZATION; BEAM ANGLE SELECTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NONCOPLANAR BEAM; SPHERICAL CLUSTERS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BEAM ANGLE SELECTION; BRAIN DAMAGE; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NEUROPROTECTION; ORGANS AT RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKULL;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SKULL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84872005949     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4771932     Document Type: Article

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