Optimal terrain construction problems and applications in intensity-modulated radiation therapy

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2461, Issue , 2002, Pages 270-283

  Chen, Danny Z ^a   Hu, Xiaobo S ^a   Luan, Shuang ^a   Wu, Xiaodong ^a   Yu, Cedric X ^b  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS;

CONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; CONSTRUCTION PROBLEM; GEOMETRIC TECHNIQUES; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LEAF SEQUENCING PROBLEMS; MEDICAL DATA; UNIFIED APPROACH;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 84938054220     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45749-6_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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