Intensity modulation function and beam orientation optimization in conformal radiotherapy treatment planning

• Main Author: Lim, Chong Jen.
• Other Authors: Abdul Rahim Leyman
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation::Medical electronics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/4659
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In applying Genetic Algorithm to CRTP, we developed a specific Radiotherapy Genetic Algorithm (R-GA) for the purpose of inverse planning, which essentially means computing an optimum set of beam parameters that will produce a dose distribution conformal to that of the prescribed one.