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IOR
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
A New Linear Programming Approach to Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Problems
We consider the problem of radiation therapy treatment planning for cancer patients. During radiation therapy, beams of radiation pass through a patient, killing both cancerous an...
H. Edwin Romeijn, Ravindra K. Ahuja, James F. Demp...
CONSTRAINTS
2011
12 years 8 months ago
CP and IP approaches to cancer radiotherapy delivery optimization
Abstract. We consider the problem of decomposing an integer matrix into a positively weighted sum of binary matrices that have the consecutive-ones property. This problem is well-k...
Davaatseren Baatar, Natashia Boland, Sebastian Bra...
INFORMS
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
An Automated Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy Planning System
We design and implement an intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) plan generation technology that effectively and efficiently optimizes beam geometry as well as beam intens...
Shabbir Ahmed, Ozan Gozbasi, Martin W. P. Savelsbe...
ASAP
2007
IEEE
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13 years 6 months ago
Hardware Acceleration for 3-D Radiation Dose Calculation
Abstract— The problem of calculating accurate dose distributions lies in the heart of modern radiation therapy for cancer treatment. Software implementations of dose calculation ...
Bo Zhou, Xiaobo Sharon Hu, Danny Z. Chen, Cedric X...
SIAMJO
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
An Optimization Approach for Radiosurgery Treatment Planning
We outline a new approach for radiosurgery treatment planning, based on solving a series of optimization problems. We consider a specific treatment planning problem for a speciali...
Michael C. Ferris, Jinho Lim, David M. Shepard