Forward Planning / Optimization
Manual Selection / Adjustment of Dwell Times T
i
It is based on Clinical Experience and Planner Expertise
It is time consuming / Human Resources intensive
It is Expert-dependent
The “wished” dose distribution
is not mandatory
to be
pre-defined (Expertise):
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Visual inspection of 2D dose distributions (isodose lines)
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Inspection of resulted doses to some “representative” points
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Inspection of DVH curves
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Inspection of Dose-Volume-Parameters
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