Methods to optimize conformal dynamic arcs in radiation therapy treatment planning

Inverse Methods for Planning Radiation Therapy

A new era in cancer radiation therapy has been gradually emerging during the last decade with the rapid development of many new and powerful methods for plan­ ning treatment and for optimizing the delivery of radiation doses. This process parallels in many respects the rapid devel­ opment in medical imaging technology that took place during the last 20 years, where computed tomography (CT), mag...

An Optimization Framework for Conformal Radiation Treatment Planning

An optimization framework for three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy is presented. In this type of therapy, beams of radiation are applied to a patient from different directions, where the aperture through which the beam is delivered from each direction is chosen to match the shape of the tumor, as viewed from that direction. Given a set of equispaced beam angles, a mixed-integer linear ...

Dosimetric validation for an automatic brain metastases planning software using single‐isocenter dynamic conformal arcs

An automatic brain-metastases planning (ABMP) software has been installed in our institution. It is dedicated for treating multiple brain metastases with radiosurgery on linear accelerators (linacs) using a single-setup isocenter with noncoplanar dynamic conformal arcs. This study is to validate the calculated absolute dose and dose distribution of ABMP. Three types of measurements were perform...

A treatment planning comparison of highly conformal radiation therapy for pediatric low-grade brainstem gliomas

A stochastic control formalism for dynamic biologically conformal radiation therapy

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2011.10.039 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Department of Ra of Washington, Box 356043, Seattle, WA 98195-6043 598 8133; fax: +1 206 598 6218. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Kim State-of-the-art methods for optimizing cancer treatment over several weeks of external beam radiotherapy take a static–deterministic vie...