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17 tips and tricks for happy IMRT planning

avoid voxels with conflicting objectives

create some hierarchy in your objectives in case a organ

at risk has an overlap with your target volume. (some TPSs

intrinsically rank the objectives)

conflicting objectives to the same voxels will increase to total cost and

distract the optimiser from real optimisation problems

carefully chosen objectives will always yield a low total cost in the end

of the optimisation

7

contouring

beam setup

start

optimisation

evaluate

setting

objectives