OPTIMAL TREATMENT PLANNING IN RADIOTHERAPY BASED ON BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT CALCULATIONS

DOI10.1142/S0218202508002784zbMath1143.76058MaRDI QIDQ3521623

Matthias Schäfer, Michael Herty, Martin Frank

Publication date: 26 August 2008

Published in: Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218202508002784

zbMATH Keywords

existence; optimality conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76P05: Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics

92C50: Medical applications (general)

76M30: Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

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• KELLEY

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