Using linear programming in lung cancer treatment planning at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre

Using linear programming in lung cancer treatment planning at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre

Campbell, Matthew; Houghton, Christopher
Date:   2007
Type:   Text

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Proceedings of the 37th Atlantic Schools of Business conference, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, 2007, pp 128-136

Abstract:

Medical physicists at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre (QEII) located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, use a process known as forward treatment planning when planning radiotherapy treatment for lung cancer patients. This paper details the development of a linear programming model that calculates optimal beam weightings that assists medical physicists at the QEII in lung cancer forward treatment planning.

Subject:
  • Lungs -- Cancer -- Radiotherapy
  • Lungs -- Cancer -- Radiotherapy -- Nova Scotia
  • Medical physics
  • Cancer -- Treatment -- Linear programming


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