| Radiotherapy Treatment Planning: New System Approaches Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Haas, Olivier C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1447112105 ISBN-13: 9781447112105 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Automation - Technology & Engineering | Engineering (general) - Medical | Radiology, Radiotherapy & Nuclear Medicine |
| Dewey: 610.28 |
| Series: Advances in Industrial Control |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.76 lbs) 220 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An in depth examination of many of the complex issues associated with planning and optimisation of intensity modulated radiotherapy treatment. It includes: a presentation of current practice, techniques and equipment used by medical physicists and others to deliver radiotherapy treatment; a systems modelling approach in the formulation of a beam model for optimisation, describing the effect of X-rays on human body tissues; a deterministic approach to the inverse problem in radiotherapy, based on weighted iterative least squares is modified to allow an adaptive scaling of the error to improve the performance of a general least squares algorithm; a guided random search methodology, based on genetic algorithms which is aimed at solving multi-objective optimisation problems is developed to optimise beam weight/wedge angle as well as coplanar beam orientation; the overall approach developed is demons trated practically using both traditional and modern measurement techniques. |
