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A new plan quality objective function for determining optimal collimator combinations in prostate cancer treatment with stereotactic body radiation therapy using CyberKnife

Stereotactic body radiation therapy with CyberKnife for prostate cancer has long treatment times compared with conventional radiotherapy. This arises the need for designing treatment plans with short execution times. We propose an objective function for plan quality evaluation, which was used to det...

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Autores principales: Varnava, Maria, Sumida, Iori, Mizuno, Hirokazu, Shiomi, Hiroya, Suzuki, Osamu, Yoshioka, Yasuo, Ogawa, Kazuhiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6258559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30481228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208086