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Trends and research opportunities in Treatment Planning
Sub-fields of research on, or with planning:
 Dose calculation accuracy
 Fast dose calculation and plan optimization
 Probabilistic/robust planning (replace PTV/PRV)
 Automated planning
 Interactive (graphical) planning
 (Non-coplanar) beam angle optimization
 Pareto navigation
 ‘Biological’ planning
 Evaluation of new treatment techniques
 Automated treatment plan QA
 Spatio-temporal fractionation
 MR-only workflow
 Automatic image segmentation
 Deformable image registration
 Dose accumulation
 …….