Clinical benefits of inverse planning for high dose rate prostate brachytherapy

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1730-1734

  Lessard, Etienne ^a   Hsu, I Chow ^a   Pouliot, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; High dose rate; Inverse planning; Optimization; Prostate

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISEASES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CONVENTIONAL TREATMENTS; HIGH DOSE RATE; HIGH-DOSE-RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; INVERSE PLANNING; PROSTATE; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS;

UROLOGY;

EID: 84883343280     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: 14339277     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-36841-0_428     Document Type: Conference Paper

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