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Optimization Based Frameworkfor Radiation Therapy

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Introduction

Applications and Methods

  The Radiation Treatment Planning Procedure

  Use of Optimization Techniques

  Gamma Knife Radiosurgery

  Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiation Therapy

  Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, USA

    Gino J. Lim

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544-5263, USA

    Christodoulos A. Floudas

  2. Center for Applied Optimization, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611-6595, USA

    Panos M. Pardalos

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Lim, G.J. (2008). Optimization Based Frameworkfor Radiation Therapy . In: Floudas, C., Pardalos, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Optimization. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74759-0_477

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