IMRT of Prostate Cancer: A Comparison of Fluence Optimization with Sequential Segmentation and Direct-Step-and-Shoot Optimization

DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.23395

Treutwein, Marius

; Hipp, Matthias ; Koelbl, Oliver ; Bogner, Ludwig

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Date of publication of this fulltext: 06 Feb 2012 13:04

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Abstract

Background and Purpose: Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) has shown its superiority to three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy in the treatment of prostate cancer. Different optimization algorithms are available: algorithms which first optimize the fluence followed by a sequencing (IM), and algorithms which involve the machine parameters directly in the optimization process (DSS). The ...