A New Linear Programming Approach to Radiation Therapy ...

During radiation therapy, beams of radiation pass through a patient, killing both cancerous and normal cells. Thus, the radiation therapy must be carefully ...

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linear programming based approach to designing optimal radiation treatment plans. ... dose is delivered to cancerous cells, while sparing normal cells in nearby ...

A New Linear Programming Approach to Radiation Therapy Treatment

Romeijn, Ahuja, Dempsey, and Kumar: A New Linear Programming Approach to Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Problems. 202 Operations Research 54(2), pp ...

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A new model that has the potential to achieve most of the goals with respect to the quality of a treatment plan for IMRT is proposed, in contrast with ...

A New Linear Programming Approach to Radiation Therapy ...

In this paper, we consider the problem of designing a treatment plan for IMRT when the orientations of the beams are given. We propose a new model that has the ...

A New Linear Programming Approach to Radiation - ProQuest

A New Linear Programming Approach to Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Problems ... Romeijn, H Edwin; Ahuja, Ravindra K; Dempsey, James F; Kumar, Arvind.

A New Linear Programming Approach to Radiation Therapy ...

Mentioning: 126 - We consider the problem of radiation therapy treatment planning for cancer patients. During radiation therapy, beams of radiation pass ...

A New Linear Programming Approach to Radiation Therapy ...

Thus, the preservation of healthy or functional tissues, and hence the quality of a patient's life, must be balanced against the probability of the eradication ...

H. E. Romeijn, R. K. Ahuja and J. F. Dempsey, “A New Linear ...

H. E. Romeijn, R. K. Ahuja and J. F. Dempsey, “A New Linear Programming Approach to Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Problems,” Operations Research, ...

The Method of Linear Programming Applied to Radiation Treatment ...

In principle, the therapist need only provide a contour exhibiting areas of anatomical interest with his requirements for dosages in said areas (minimums and ...

A linear programming approach to inverse planning in Gamma Knife ...

Dualization and representative subsampling each leads to optimization time-savings by a factor 5-20. Overall, we find in a comparison with 75 clinical plans ...

Large scale optimization of beam weights under dose-volume ...

The combinatorial LP is solved as a mixed 0/1 integer program with appropriate restrictions on normal tissue dose. The method is illustrated through the ...

A linear programming approach to inverse planning in Gamma Knife ...

Dualization and representative subsampling each leads to optimization time‐savings by a factor 5–20. Overall, we find in a comparison with 75 clinical plans ...

linear programming formulations and algorithms for radiotherapy ...

Key words. Linear Programming, Simplex Method, Interior-Point Method, Radiation Therapy. 1. Introduction. Radiation therapy is a widely used technique for ...

Linear programming approach for radiotherapy treatment planning

A mathematical formulation of the radiation therapy problem consists of a pair of forward and inverse problems. The inverse problem is to determine external ...

A novel linear programming approach to fluence map optimization ...

We present a novel linear programming (LP) based approach for efficiently solving the intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) fluence-map ...

Radiotherapy Treatment Design and Linear Programming

Intensity modulated radiotherapy treatment (IMRT) design is the process of choosing how beams of radiation will travel through a cancer patient to treat the ...

A linear programming approach to inverse planning in Gamma Knife ...

Dualization and representative subsampling each leads to optimization time-savings by a factor 5–20. Overall, we find in a comparison with 75 ...

An Integer Linear Programming Model for the Radiotherapy ... - arXiv

This paper presents a new integer linear programming model for real-world radiotherapy treatment scheduling and analyses the effectiveness of using this model.

Fluence Map Optimization in IMRT Cancer Treatment Planning and ...

30 References · A coupled column generation, mixed integer approach to optimal planning of intensity modulated radiation therapy for cancer · Integer Programming ...