Optimization of HDR brachytherapy dose distributions using linear ...

Prostate cancer is increasingly treated with high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy, a type of radiotherapy in which a radioactive source is guided through ...

Their method minimizes the time the source is irradiating tissue subject to a minimum dose constraint for a set of points in the target volume.

A linear programming model for optimizing HDR brachytherapy ...

Purpose: Recent research has shown that the optimization model hitherto used in high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy corresponds weakly to the dosimetric ...

Optimization of HDR brachytherapy dose distributions using linear ...

This thesis aims to simplify current treatment planning in high dose rate (HDR) prostate brachytherapy by implementing three multi-criteria optimization ...

Optimization of HDR brachytherapy dose distributions using linear ...

Supporting: 3, Mentioning: 71 - Prostate cancer is increasingly treated with high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy, a type of radiotherapy in which a ...

Optimization of HDR brachytherapy dose distributions using linear ...

Prostate cancer is increasingly treated with high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy, a type of radiotherapy in which a radioactive source is ...

Optimization of HDR brachytherapy dose distributions using linear ...

Alterovitz R, Lessard E, Pouliot J, Hsu IC, O'Brien JF, Goldberg K. Optimization of HDR brachytherapy dose distributions using linear programming with penalty ...

Optimization of dose distribution for HDR brachytherapy of the ...

Methods and Materials: The ARM was used to optimize the dose distribution by finding the best dwell time combination. ARM requires grids inside the clinical ...

Optimizing Radiation Dose for Brachytherapy Cancer Treatment

O'Brien, and Ken Goldberg, "Optimization of HDR brachytherapy dose distributions using linear programming with penalty costs," Medical Physics, vol. 33, no ...

A linear optimization model for high dose rate brachytherapy using a ...

We propose a linear network-based optimization model (LNBM) for high dose rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT) that uses a novel distance metric to measure the ...

Impact of using linear optimization models in dose planning for HDR ...

The use of linear penalties in optimization models for HDR brachytherapy is one cause for the undesired long dwell times that arise in mathematically ...

Impact of Using Linear Optimization Models in Dose Planning for ...

Purpose: Dose plans generated with optimization models hitherto used in HDR brachytherapy have shown a tendency to yield longer dwell times than manually ...

A linear programming model for optimizing HDR brachytherapy ...

Purpose: Recent research has shown that the optimization model hitherto used in high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy corresponds weakly to the ...

Impact of using linear optimization models in dose planning for HDR ...

Purpose: Dose plans generated with optimization models hitherto used in high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy have shown a tendency to yield longer dwell times ...

Optimization of HDR brachytherapy dose distributions using linear ...

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Impact of using linear optimization models in dose planning for HDR ...

Dose plans generated with optimization models hitherto used in high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy have shown a tendency to yield longer dwell times than ...

Volume-based dose optimization in brachytherapy - ScienceDirect

Conclusion: The method described in this paper allows a volume-oriented optimization for brachytherapy dose distribution. The algorithm guarantees finding a ...

A linear programming model for optimizing HDR brachytherapy ...

A linear programming model for optimizing HDR brachytherapy dose distributions with respect to mean dose in the DVH-tail · List of references · Publications that ...

Dose optimization in HDR brachytherapy: A literature review ... - Lirias

Optimization of HDR brachytherapy dose distributions using linear programming with penalty costs. Medical Physics, 33(11), 4012-4019. 4. Anacak, Y ...

Mathematical optimization of high dose-rate brachytherapy ...

For dose planning, mathematical optimization techniques are being used in practice and the most common approach is to use a linear model which penalizes ...