Automation in intensity modulated radiotherapy treatment planning—a review of recent innovations

M Hussein, BJM Heijmen, D Verellen… - The British journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Radiotherapy treatment planning of complex radiotherapy techniques, such as intensity
modulated radiotherapy and volumetric modulated arc therapy, is a resource-intensive …

Artificial Intelligence in magnetic Resonance guided Radiotherapy: Medical and physical considerations on state of art and future perspectives

D Cusumano, L Boldrini, J Dhont, C Fiorino, O Green… - Physica medica, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the last years, technological innovation in Radiotherapy (RT) led to the introduction of
Magnetic Resonance-guided RT (MRgRT) systems. Due to the higher soft tissue contrast …

Online adaptive planning methods for intensity-modulated radiotherapy

Z Qiu, S Olberg, D den Hertog, A Ajdari… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Online adaptive radiation therapy aims at adapting a patient's treatment plan to their current
anatomy to account for inter-fraction variations before daily treatment delivery. As this …

Multi-criteria optimization and decision-making in radiotherapy

S Breedveld, D Craft, R Van Haveren… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Radiotherapy (radiation therapy) is one of the main treatments for cancer. The aim is to
deliver a prescribed radiation dose to the tumor, while keeping the unavoidable dose to the …

Toward fully automated multicriterial plan generation: a prospective clinical study

PWJ Voet, MLP Dirkx, S Breedveld, D Fransen… - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To prospectively compare plans generated with iCycle, an in-house-developed
algorithm for fully automated multicriterial intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) …

A GPU-based multi-criteria optimization algorithm for HDR brachytherapy

C Bélanger, S Cui, Y Ma, P Després… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Currently in HDR brachytherapy planning, a manual fine-tuning of an objective function is
necessary to obtain case-specific valid plans. This study intends to facilitate this process by …

[HTML][HTML] Knowledge-based automatic plan optimization for left-sided whole breast tomotherapy

PG Esposito, R Castriconi, P Mangili, S Broggi… - Physics and Imaging in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Background/Purpose Tomotherapy may deliver high-quality whole breast
irradiation at static angles. The aim of this study was to implement Knowledge-Based (KB) …

On the beam direction search space in computerized non-coplanar beam angle optimization for IMRT—prostate SBRT

L Rossi, S Breedveld, BJM Heijmen… - Physics in Medicine …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
In a recent paper, we have published a new algorithm, designated'iCycle', for fully
automated multi-criterial optimization of beam angles and intensity profiles. In this study, we …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of optimisation parameters on directly deliverable Pareto fronts explored for prostate cancer

D Wüthrich, M Zeverino, J Bourhis, F Bochud… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose In inverse radiotherapy treatment planning, the Pareto front is the set of optimal
solutions to the multi-criteria problem of adequately irradiating the planning target volume …

Replacing manual planning of whole breast irradiation with knowledge-based automatic optimization by virtual tangential-fields arc therapy

R Castriconi, PG Esposito, A Tudda, P Mangili… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Purpose To implement Knowledge Based (KB) automatic planning for right and left-sided
whole breast treatment through a new volumetric technique (ViTAT, Virtual Tangential-fields …