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Incorporating Treatment Time into Butterfly Optimization to Reduce Total Treatment Time for Vaginal Cylinder Brachytherapy

Purpose For patient comfort and safety, irradiation times should be kept at a minimum while maintaining high treatment quality. In this study of high dose rate (HDR) therapy with a vaginal cylinder, we used the butterfly optimization algorithm (BOA) to simultaneously optimize individual dwell times...

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Autores principales: Wu, Xingen, Brezovich, Ivan A, Shen, Sui, Covington, Elizabeth, Stanley, Dennis, Popple, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9076060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35530902
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23893