A New Sequential Extraction Heuristic for Optimizing the Delivery of Cancer Radiation Treatment Using Multileaf Collimators
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delivery of cancer radiation treatment using multileaf collimators Davaasteren Baatar, Natashia Boland, Robert Johnston Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia, {[email protected], [email protected], , [email protected]} Horst W. Hamacher Department of Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany, [email protected]
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- INFORMS Journal on Computing
دوره 21 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009