Direct leaf trajectory optimization for volumetric modulated arc therapy planning with sliding window delivery

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Papp, Dávid ^a   Unkelbach, Jan ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

arc therapy; optimization; sliding window; VMAT

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; OPTIMIZATION; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; TRAJECTORIES;

ARC THERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; OPTIMIZATION MODELING; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SLIDING WINDOW; TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION; VMAT; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

BENCHMARKING;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; PRIMARY TUMOR; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VELOCITY; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RADIATION DOSE;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84892150523     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4835435     Document Type: Article

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