Monte Carlo-based inverse treatment planning

MCNP-A General Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code

1993 • 5,155 citations

Prescribing, recording, and reporting photon beam therapy

1993 • 1,781 citations

Nuclear Reactor Theory

1952 • 1,381 citations

Fitting of normal tissue tolerance data to an analytic function

1991 • 1,208 citations

Fast simulated annealing

1987 • 1,067 citations

Tomotherapy: A new concept for the delivery of dynamic conformal radiotherapy

1993 • 1,041 citations

Energy and angular distributions of photons from medical linear accelerators

1985 • 509 citations

Optimization of stationary and moving beam radiation therapy techniques

1988 • 481 citations

Methods of image reconstruction from projections applied to conformation radiotherapy

1990 • 396 citations

Optimisation of conformal radiotherapy dose distribution by simulated annealing

1989 • 341 citations

Decomposition of pencil beam kernels for fast dose calculations in three‐dimensional treatment planning

1993 • 209 citations

Application of fast simulated annealing to optimization of conformal radiation treatments

1993 • 138 citations

Comparisons between MCNP, EGS4 and experiment for clinical electron beams

1999 • 117 citations

Optimization of intensity-modulated 3D conformal treatment plans based on biological indices

1995 • 104 citations

Treatment planning optimization using constrained simulated annealing

1991 • 94 citations

Multiobjective decision theory for computational optimization in radiation therapy

1997 • 89 citations

The validity of the density scaling method in primary electron transport for photon and electron beams

1990 • 74 citations

A unified approach to the optimization of brachytherapy and external beam dosimetry

1991 • 66 citations

Superposition dose calculation incorporating Monte Carlo generated electron track kernels

1996 • 64 citations

Optimization of brachytherapy dose distributions by simulated annealing

1992 • 62 citations

A generic genetic algorithm for generating beam weights

1996 • 54 citations

A comparison of conventional ‘forward planning’ with inverse planning for 3D conformal radiotherapy of the prostate

1995 • 51 citations

The optimization and inherent limitations of 3D conformal radiotherapy treatment plans of the prostate

1995 • 50 citations

Validation of Monte Carlo generated phase-space descriptions of medical linear accelerators

1999 • 49 citations

Comparison of simulated annealing algorithms for conformal therapy treatment planning

1995 • 45 citations

Accounting for primary electron scatter in x-ray beam convolution calculations

1995 • 37 citations

Photon dose calculation incorporating explicit electron transport

1995 • 32 citations

Measured electron energy and angular distributions from clinical accelerators

1996 • 32 citations

Possibilities for tailoring dose distributions through the manipulation of electron beam characteristics

1997 • 28 citations

Optimizing radiation therapy inverse treatment planning using the simulated annealing technique

1995 • 25 citations

Forward and adjoint methods for radiotherapy planning

1998 • 18 citations

Two accurate algorithms for calculating the energy fluence profile in inverse radiation therapy planning

1993 • 16 citations

Using EGS4 Monte Carlo in medical radiation physics.

1990 • 15 citations

Response to Bortfeld et al. re physical vs. biological objectives for treatment plan optimization

1996 • 13 citations

Optimisation in radiotherapy I: defining the problem.

1997 • 7 citations

Optimisation in radiotherapy. III: Stochastic optimisation algorithms and conclusions.

1997 • 5 citations

Optimisation in radiotherapy. II: Programmed and inversion optimisation algorithms.

1997 • 3 citations

712General features of multiple local minima in TCP optimization problems with dose-volume constraints

1996 • 2 citations