PURPOSE This study investigates potential gains of an improved beam angle arrangement compared to a conventional fixed gantry setup in intensity modulated proton therapy (IMPT) treatment for localized prostate cancer patients based on a proof of principle study. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three patients with localized prostate cancer retrospectively selected from our institution were studied. For ...

PURPOSE In this work a general method is presented that enables clinicians to rapidly select Rotating shield brachytherapy (RSBT) emission angles based on the patient-specific tradeoff between delivery time and tumor dose conformity. Cervical cancer cases are used as examples. METHODS Anchor plans with high dose conformity but infeasible delivery times are generated with a fine emission angle...

This is the first report on a new fast statistical iterative reconstruction algorithm for conebeam with a circular source trajectory, accelerated by InstaRecon's fast O(NlogN) hierarchical cone beam backprojection and reprojection algorithms. We report on the results of image quality and run-time comparisons with iterative algorithms based on conventional backprojection and reprojection. We dem...

This paper deals with the possibilities of cancellation of unwanted signals by steering nulls of the pattern in the direction of arrival of signal while keeping the main beam to the desired direction. New iterative adaptive digital beam forming technique is presented here to enhance the conventional effectiveness of beam forming in common commercial application. Simulation and measurement resul...

The simple assembly line balancing problem (SALBP) concerns the assignment of tasks with pre-defined processing times to work stations that are arranged in a line. Hereby, precedence constraints between the tasks must be respected. The optimization goal of the SALBP-2 version of the problem concerns the minimization of the so-called cycle time, that is, the time in which the tasks of each work ...

In this paper, we introduce and study a mixed variational inclusion problem involving infinite family of fuzzy mappings. An iterative algorithm is constructed for solving a mixed variational inclusion problem involving infinite family of fuzzy mappings and the convergence of iterative sequences generated by the proposed algorithm is proved. Some illustrative examples are also given.

This paper proposes a cascade blockage model for analyzing the vision that user has of wireless network. model, inspired by classical multiplicative models, radial structure meant to analyze blockages seen receiver at origin in different angular sectors. The main novelty is it based on geometry obstacles and takes joint phenomenon into account. We show couple simple instances Laplace transforms...

PURPOSE To investigate the role of beam orientation optimization in intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and to examine the potential benefits of noncoplanar intensity-modulated beams. METHODS AND MATERIALS A beam orientation optimization algorithm was implemented. For this purpose, system variables were divided into two groups: beam position (gantry and table angles) and beam profile...

This letter considers an iterative decoding algorithm for non-binary linear block codes in which erasure and error decoding is performed for input words given by the sums of a hard-decision received sequence and given test patterns. We have proposed a new selection method of test patterns for the iterative decoding algorithm. Simulation results have shown that the decoding algorithm with test p...

This work addresses a distributed technique to precoding matrices coordination in a multi-cell network. We propose an iterative method based on a message-passing algorithm in factor graphs. Finite precoder codebooks for different MIMO setups are adopted for beam forming purposes. Conversely, practical cellular networks usually solve the precoder selection problem in a non-iterative manner based...