Adaptation of the CVT algorithm for catheter optimization in high dose rate brachytherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Poulin, Eric ^e   Fekete, Charles Antoine Collins ^e   Létourneau, Mélanie ^b   Fenster, Aaron ^c   Pouliot, Jean ^d   Beaulieu, Luc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

CVT; HDR brachytherapy; IPSA; needle planning; optimization

Indexed keywords

CATHETERS; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; ERRORS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ONCOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY; SIMULATED ANNEALING; UROLOGY; VARIABLE SPEED TRANSMISSIONS;

CENTROIDAL VORONOI TESSELLATION; HDR BRACHYTHERAPY; HIGH-DOSE-RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; IPSA; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; RADIATION THERAPY ONCOLOGY GROUPS; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY DEVICE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CATHETER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HIGH DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION STUDY; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CATHETERIZATION; CATHETERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84889653621     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4826335     Document Type: Article

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