Guaranteed epsilon-optimal treatment plans with the minimum number of beams for stereotactic body radiation therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 5931-5944

  Yarmand, Hamed ^a   Winey, Brian ^a   Craft, David ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION TIME; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ELIMINATION SCHEME; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING (MIP); QUALITY AND DELIVERY; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PARETO PRINCIPLE;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; ARTICLE; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84883193502     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/17/5931     Document Type: Article

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