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Abstract
Shape matrix decomposition is a subproblem in radiation therapy planning. A given fluence matrix A has to be decomposed into a sum of shape matrices corresponding to homogeneous fields that can be shaped by a multileaf collimator (MLC). We solve the problem of minimizing the delivery time for an approximation of A satisfying certain prescribed bounds, under the additional condition that the used MLC requires the interleaf collision constraint.
Keywords:
- Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT),
- multileaf collimator,
- combinatorial optimization,
- programming involving graphs
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