Optimal beam penetrations in two and three dimensions

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

Volumn 1969, Issue , 2000, Pages 491-502

  Chen, Danny Z ^c   Hu, Xiaobo Sharon ^a   Xu, Jinhui ^b  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; SURGERY;

COVERING PROBLEMS; GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION; GEOMETRIC OBSERVATION; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; TARGET REGIONS; THREE DIMENSIONS; WEIGHTED REGIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84949815306     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-40996-3_42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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