Development and evaluation of an efficient approach to volumetric arc therapy planning

K Bzdusek, H Friberger, K Eriksson… - Medical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… an efficient algorithm for generating dynamic arc plans that meets the clinical dosimetric …
components of plan optimization and arc sequencing are introduced. Ten plans for head …

Volumetric modulated arc therapy: planning and evaluation for prostate cancer cases

P Zhang, L Happersett, M Hunt, A Jackson… - International Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To develop an optimization method using volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT)
and evaluate VMAT plans relative to the standard intensity-modulated radiotherapy (…

Optimization approaches to volumetric modulated arc therapy planning

J Unkelbach, T Bortfeld, D Craft, M Alber… - Medical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
arc therapy (VMAT) has found widespread clinical application in recent years. A large number
of treatment planning studies have evaluated the … implementations of VMAT planning. In …

Treatment planning for volumetric modulated arc therapy

JL Bedford - Medical physics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… -math-0018 are then used to control the algorithm by evaluating an objective function.
The objective function is constructed from treatment plan statistics, which can be (a) root-mean-…

Detailed evaluation of an automated approach to interactive optimization for volumetric modulated arc therapy plans

JP Tol, M Dahele, AR Delaney, P Doornaert… - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… Volumetric modulated arc therapy AIO plans (APs) were created for 70 HNC patients with a
… in this analysis to evaluate the performance of the AIO a for head and neck cancer planning. …

Automatic interactive optimization for volumetric modulated arc therapy planning

JP Tol, M Dahele, J Peltola, J Nord, BJ Slotman… - Radiation …, 2015 - Springer
… We describe AIO and present initial evaluation data. … volumetric modulated arc therapy
(RapidArc) planning approach for head … We compared RapidArc AIO plans (using 9 optimization …

Fully automated volumetric modulated arc therapy plan generation for prostate cancer patients

PWJ Voet, MLP Dirkx, S Breedveld… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
… In this study, we develop and evaluate a fully automated VMAT planning strategy for prostate
cancer patients. Erasmus-iCycle is still used as preoptimization for generation of VMAT …

Planning strategies in volumetric modulated arc therapy for breast

G Nicolini, A Fogliata, A Clivio, E Vanetti… - Medical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… Aim of the study was to quantify the robustness of this planning strategy on dose distributions
… When plans were evaluated on the expanded CTs (mimicking the presence of edema), the …

Volumetric‐modulated arc therapy planning using multicriteria optimization for localized prostate cancer

S Ghandour, O Matzinger… - Journal of applied clinical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… The purpose of this work is to evaluate the volumetric-modulated arc therapyplanning
system (TPS) and its ability to reduce treatment planning time while providing high dosimetric plan

… planning and delivery evaluation of volumetric modulated arc therapy for stereotactic body radiotherapy of spinal tumours: impact of arc discretization in planning …

EL Marchand, A Sahgal, TJ Zhang… - … in cancer research …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
… The purpose of this study was to compare single arc volumetric modulated arc therapy (…
modulated arc (7-14). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the technology’s ability to plan