Optimal radiation beam profiles considering the stochastic process of patient positioning in fractionated radiation therapy

DOI10.1088/0266-5611/11/6/005MaRDI QIDQ4862408zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Lof, Bengt K. Lind, Anders Brahme

Publication date 21 April 1996

Published in Inverse Problems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/0266-5611/11/6/005

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlo integrationlinear quadratic modeltumour controlfractionated radiation therapyoptimal beam profiles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Medical applications (general) (92C50) Numerical integration (65D30) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08)

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