Non-coplanar beam direction optimization for intensity-modulated radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 2999-3019

  Meedt, G ^a   Alber, M ^a   Nusslin F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DOSIMETRY; OPTIMIZATION;

INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOSENSITIVITY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARANASAL SINUS NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0141447423     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/18/304     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Alber M, Birkner M, Laub W and Nüsslin F 2000 Hyperion: an integrated IMRT planning tool Proc. 13th ICCR Meeting
2. Alber M, Meedt G, Nsslin F and Reemtsen R 2002 On the degeneracy of the IMRT optimization problem Med. Phys. 29 2584-9
3. Alber M and Nsslin F 1999 An objective function for radiation treatment based on local biological measures Phys. Med. Biol. 44 479-93
4. Bortfeld T and Schlegel W 1993 Optimization of beam orientations in radiotherapy: some theoretical considerations Phys. Med. Biol. 38 291-304
5. Bortfeld T, Stein J and Preiser K 1997 Clinically relevant intensity modulation optimization using physical criteria Proc. 12th ICCR Meeting
6. Brahme 1988 Optimization of stationary and moving beam radiation therapy techniques Radiother. Oncol. 12 129-40
7. Cho B C J and Roa W H 1999 The development of target-eye-view maps for selection of coplanar or noncoplanar beams in conformal radiotherapy treatment planning Med. Phys. 26 2367-72
8. Das K S and Marks L B 1997 Selection of coplanar and noncoplanar beams using three-dimensional optimization based on maximum beam separation and minimized nontarget irradiation Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 38 643-55
9. Gokhale P and Hussein E M A 1994 Determination of beam orientation in radiotherapy planning Med. Phys. 21 393-400
10. Gustafson A, Lind B K and Brahme A 1994 A generalized pencil beam algorithm for optimization of radiation therapy Med. Phys. 21 343-55
11. Holmes T and Mackie T R 1994 A filtered backprojection dose calculation method for inverse treatment planning Med. Phys. 21 303-13
12. Ling C C et al 1996 Conformal radiation treatment of prostate cancer using inversely-planned intensity-modulated photon beams produced with dynamic multileaf collimation Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 35 721-31
13. Pugachev A, Boyer A L and Xing L 2000 Beam orientation optimization in intensity-modulated radiation treatment planning Med. Phys. 27 1238-45
14. Pugachev A, Li J G, Boyer A L, Hancock S T, Ler Q, Donaldson S S and Xing L 2001 Role of beam orientation optimization in IMRT Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 50 551-60
15. Rowbottom C G, Nutting C M and Webb S 2000 Beam-orientation optimization of intensity-modulated radiotherapy: clinical application to parotid gland tumours Radiother. Oncol. 59 169-77
16. Rowbottom C G, Oldham M and Webb S 1999 Constrained customization of non-coplanar beam orientations in radiotherapy of brain tumours Phys. Med. Biol. 44 383-98
17. Rowbottom C G, Webb S and Oldham M 1998 Improvements in prostate radiotherapy from the customization of beam directions Med. Phys. 25 1171-9
18. Söderström S and Brahme A 1992 Selection of suitable beam orientations in radiation therapy using entropy and Fourier transform measures Phys. Med. Biol. 37 911-24
19. Söderström S and Brahme A 1993 Optimization of the dose delivery in a few field techniques using radiobiological objective functions Med. Phys. 20 1205-10
20. Söderström S and Brahme A 1995 Which is the most suitable number of photon beam portals in coplanar radiation therapy Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 33 151-9
21. Spirou S V and Chui C 1998 A gradient inverse planning algorithm with dose-volume constraints Med. Phys. 25 321-33
22. Stein J, Mohan R, Wang X, Bortfeld T, Wu Q, Preiser K, Ling C C and Schlegel W 1997 Number and orientations of beams in intensity-modulated radiation treatments Med. Phys. 24 149-60
23. Wang X, Mohan R, Jackson A, Leibel A A, Fuks Z and Ling C C 1995 Optimization of intensity-modulated 3D conformal treatment plans based on biological indices Radiother Oncol. 37 140-52
24. Webb S 1994 Optimizing the planning of intensity-modulated radiotherapy Phys. Med. Biol. 39 2229-46
25. Webb S 2001 Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing)
26. Woudstra E and Storchi P R M 2000 Constrained treatment planning using sequential beam selection Phys. Med. Biol. 45 2133-49