Performance-optimized clinical IMRT planning on modern CPUs

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3705-3715

  Ziegenhein, Peter ^a   Kamerling, Cornelis Ph ^a   Bangert, Mark ^a   Kunkel, Julian ^b   Oelfke, Uwe ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPIES; ADVANCED APPLICATIONS; CLASSICAL OPTIMIZATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MULTI CORE CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS (CPU); OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; QUASI-NEWTON METHODS;

ALGORITHMS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PHYSICAL THERAPY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RADIOTHERAPY;

OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PROCEDURES; TIME; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84878257682     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/11/3705     Document Type: Article

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