Optimization in treatment planning of high dose‐rate brachytherapy—Review and analysis of mathematical models

B Morén, T Larsson, ÅC Tedgren - Medical Physics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Treatment planning in high dose‐rate brachytherapy has traditionally been conducted with
manual forward planning, but inverse planning is today increasingly used in clinical practice …

Operational research techniques applied throughout cancer care services: a review

CE Saville, HK Smith, K Bijak - Health Systems, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Cancer is a disease affecting increasing numbers of people. In the UK, the proportion of
people affected by cancer is projected to increase from 1 in 3 in 1992, to nearly 1 in 2 by …

A feasibility study for using ABS plastic and a low-cost 3D printer for patient-specific brachytherapy mould design

BD Harris, S Nilsson, CM Poole - Australasian physical & engineering …, 2015 - Springer
This feasibility study aims to determine if a low-cost 3D printer (BitsFromBytes 3D Touch)
with ABS plastic can print custom mould structures and catheter channels defined in a …

Deep reinforcement learning for treatment planning in high-dose-rate cervical brachytherapy

G Pu, S Jiang, Z Yang, Y Hu, Z Liu - Physica Medica, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose High-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy (BT) is an effective cancer treatment method
in which the radiation source is placed within the body. Treatment planning is a critical …

Application and benchmarking of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms on high-dose-rate brachytherapy planning for prostate cancer treatment

NH Luong, T Alderliesten, A Bel, Y Niatsetski… - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract High-Dose-Rate (HDR) brachytherapy (BT) treatment planning involves
determining an appropriate schedule of a radiation source moving through a patient's body …

Single versus multichannel applicator in high-dose-rate vaginal brachytherapy optimized by inverse treatment planning

YA Bahadur, C Constantinescu, AH Hassouna… - Journal of …, 2015 - termedia.pl
Purpose: To retrospectively compare the potential dosimetric advantages of a multichannel
vaginal applicator vs. a single channel one in intracavitary vaginal high-dose-rate (HDR) …

Inter-observer evaluation of a GPU-based multicriteria optimization algorithm combined with plan navigation tools for HDR brachytherapy

C Bélanger, É Poulin, S Aubin, É Vigneault, AG Martin… - Brachytherapy, 2022 - Elsevier
PURPOSE Recently, a GPU-based multicriteria optimization (gMCO) algorithm was
integrated in a graphical user interface (gMCO-GUI) that allowed real-time plan navigation …

Comparative analysis of 60Co and 192Ir sources in high dose rate brachytherapy for cervical cancer

A Wen, X Wang, B Wang, C Yan, J Luo, P Wang, J Li - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary High-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy (BT) is an effective treatment for
bulky, middle, and advanced cervical cancer. Both 192Ir and 60Co are radiation sources …

A framework for inverse planning of beam-on times for 3D small animal radiotherapy using interactive multi-objective optimisation

M Balvert, SJ van Hoof, PV Granton… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Advances in precision small animal radiotherapy hardware enable the delivery of
increasingly complicated dose distributions on the millimeter scale. Manual creation and …

A linear optimization model for high dose rate brachytherapy using a novel distance metric

NM Boroujeni, JPP Richard, D Sterling… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Purpose. We propose a linear network-based optimization model (LNBM) for high dose rate
brachytherapy (HDR-BT) that uses a novel distance metric to measure the discrepancy …