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Radiation therapy uses the energy imparted by radiation in order to treat tumours: this method offers the main advantage of being non-invasive. Because all parts of the body get a dose, it requires, however, a great prudence. The dosimetric planning is necessary for concentrating the dose into the tumour and saving healthy tissues as much as possible. This task is performed by radiophysicists, who determine a treatment plan after several tests. The aim of our work, which is focused on the treatment of the prostate, is to automate this stage. We describe a new mathematical model for this optimization problem, and present some numerical results including different field shapes.
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Menguy, Y. et al. (1997). External radiotherapy of prostatic carcinoma: A quadratic optimization of the dose distribution. In: Troccaz, J., Grimson, E., Mösges, R. (eds) CVRMed-MRCAS'97. CVRMed MRCAS 1997 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1205. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0029293
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