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ESTRO IMRT course 2015
IMRT optimization: algorithms&cost functions
Brussels October 5th, 2015
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The best physical dose distribution depends strongly
on the patient geometry, the plan setup and the treatment
machine
´
s capabilities.
What may be easy for one patient may be infeasible for another.
Therefore, IMRT treatment planning
means exploring the
limits of physics
for each patient. The big decisions still
have to be made by the experts.
So, why optimization?