Radiotherapy (radiation therapy) is one of the main treatments for cancer. The aim is to
deliver a prescribed radiation dose to the tumor, while kee** the unavoidable dose to the …

This book aims to provide a general overview of heuristic search, to present the basic steps
of the most popular heuristics, and to stress their hidden difficulties as well as their …

There are numerous optimisation problems for which heuristics are currently the only
practical solution method. This chapter explains the need for heuristics before providing a …

Radiation therapy treatment planning is inherently a multiobjective problem, aiming to obtain
the best tradeoffs between irradiating the tumor with the prescribed dose and sparing as …

Around the world, cancer care services are facing many operational challenges. Operations
management research can provide important solutions to these challenges, from screening …

Cancer is a disease affecting increasing numbers of people. In the UK, the proportion of
people affected by cancer is projected to increase from 1 in 3 in 1992, to nearly 1 in 2 by …

Selecting a suitable set of beam angles is an important but difficult task in intensity‐
modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for cancer treatment. From a single objective point of …

Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) allows for the design of customized, highly
conformal treatments for cancer patients. Creating IMRT treatment plans, however, is a …

Intensity‐modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is a modern radiotherapy modality that uses a
multileaf collimator to enable the irradiation of the patient with nonuniform maps of radiation …

Purpose: The treatment of thoracic cancer using external beam radiation requires an optimal
selection of the radiation beam directions to ensure effective coverage of the target volume …