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

Campbell, Matthew; Houghton, Christopher

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dc.creator	Campbell, Matthew
dc.creator	Houghton, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned	2014-01-15T19:38:04Z
dc.date.available	2014-01-15T19:38:04Z
dc.date.issued	2007
dc.identifier	http://library2.smu.ca/bitstream/handle/01/25406/asb_proceedings_2007.pdf#page=128
dc.identifier.uri	http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/25576
dc.description.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.	en_CA
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dc.language.iso	en	en_CA
dc.publisher	Atlantic Schools of Business	en_CA
dc.subject.lcsh	Lungs -- Cancer -- Radiotherapy
dc.subject.lcsh	Lungs -- Cancer -- Radiotherapy -- Nova Scotia
dc.subject.lcsh	Medical physics
dc.subject.lcsh	Cancer -- Treatment -- Linear programming
dc.title	Using linear programming in lung cancer treatment planning at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre	en_CA
dc.type	Text	en_CA
dcterms.bibliographicCitation	Proceedings of the 37th Atlantic Schools of Business conference, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, 2007, pp 128-136