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Radiotherapy Treatment Planning : New System Approaches, PDF eBook

Radiotherapy Treatment Planning : New System Approaches PDF

Part of the Advances in Industrial Control series

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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.

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