Toward a web-based real-time radiation treatment planning system in a cloud computing environment

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 6525-6540

  Na, Yong Hum ^a,b   Suh, Tae Suk ^b   Kapp, Daniel S ^a   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; CLOUD COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES; CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; TOTAL-VARIATION REGULARIZATIONS; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

CLOUD COMPUTING; DISEASES; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY; WEBSITES;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERNET; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; ARTICLE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PROSTATE TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTERNET; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84884166378     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/18/6525     Document Type: Article

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