Brachytherapy
Volume 7, Issue 1 , Pages 12-16, January 2008

A comparison of anatomy-based inverse planning with simulated annealing and graphical optimization for high-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy

  • Gerard C. Morton

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5. Tel.: +416-480-6165; fax: +416-480-6002.
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  • Raxa Sankreacha

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Physics, Odette Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Patrick Halina

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Physics, Odette Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Andrew Loblaw

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Received 16 July 2007; received in revised form 26 September 2007; accepted 2 October 2007. published online 26 November 2007.

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 This work was presented in part at the May 2006 annual scientific meeting of the American Brachytherapy Society, Philadelphia, PA.

PII: S1538-4721(07)00252-8

doi:10.1016/j.brachy.2007.10.001

Brachytherapy
Volume 7, Issue 1 , Pages 12-16, January 2008

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