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Future role of planners in treatment planning?
Planners remain more important than ever!
NOT
for routine planning; prostate, lung, breast, …
Expert planners with deep understanding remain crucial:
• Configuration AUTO-planning: expertise and good manual planning
(Sub-optimal configuration
systematic dose “error” for patient
group)
• New treatment protocol
new configuration
• Software updates: new possibilities to improve plans
update configuration
• Software updates: undesirable changes in software
• Manual planning remains essential, e.g. 5-10% of patients
• Preserve expertise and skills
• QA and improvement of AUTO-planning configurations
• More time for manual planning of “unique”, compex cases
(re-irradiation, ….)