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17 tips and tricks for happy IMRT planning
try to minimise the use of constraints and rather use
objectives with high weights
• from a radiobiology perspective there is no such thing a hard constraint
• hard constraints will generally slow down the optimization process and
sometimes makes it instable
• hard constraints bias the total cost making it more difficult to judge
your final result
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contouring
beam setup
start
optimisation
evaluate
setting
objectives