15.071 | Spring 2017 | Graduate

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8.3 Radiation Therapy: An Application of Linear Optimization

8.3 Radiation Therapy: An Application of Linear Optimization

Video 2: An Optimization Problem

Check That You Are Minimizing

If your optimal objective function value was 35.666, then you probably are maximizing instead of minimizing! Be sure to check that you are minimizing the objective in the Solver window. 

The images in this video of the brain scans come from the Computational Environment for Radiotherapy Research (CERR)

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Spring 2017
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