A tutorial on radiation oncology and optimization

A Holder, B Salter - … on Emerging Methodologies and Applications in …, 2005 - Springer
Designing radiotherapy treatments is a complicated and important task that affects patient
care, and modern delivery systems enable a physician more flexibility than can be …

Four-dimensional volume of interest

H Wang, JR Dooley, JB West - US Patent 7,352,370, 2008 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND A non-invasive method for pathological anatomy (eg, tumor, legion,
vascular malformation, nerve disorder, etc.) treatment is external beam radiation therapy. In …

Treatment planning software and corresponding user interface

H Wang, JR Dooley, B Wang, JB West… - US Patent …, 2011 - Google Patents
Settings This task includes a tool to center the dose distribution for a ball-cube plan. The
interface displays the list of beams and their geometric patterns for the current plan. The user …

Beam selection in radiotherapy design

M Ehrgott, A Holder, J Reese - Linear Algebra and its Applications, 2008 - Elsevier
The optimal design of a radiotherapy treatment depends on the collection of directions from
which radiation is focused on the patient. These directions are manually selected and are …

Flexible treatment planning

JR Dooley, JJ Wang, RM Bodduluri, JB West - US Patent 7,298,819, 2007 - Google Patents
US7298819B2 - Flexible treatment planning - Google Patents US7298819B2 - Flexible
treatment planning - Google Patents Flexible treatment planning Download PDF Info …

Automatic generation of an envelope of constraint points for inverse planning

H Wang, JB West, JR Dooley - US Patent 7,801,349, 2010 - Google Patents
US7801349B2 - Automatic generation of an envelope of constraint points for inverse
planning - Google Patents US7801349B2 - Automatic generation of an envelope of …

Treatment planning software and corresponding user interface

H Wang, JR Dooley, B Wang, JB West… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
US9993662B2 - Treatment planning software and corresponding user interface - Google
Patents US9993662B2 - Treatment planning software and corresponding user interface …

[PDF][PDF] Operations research methods for optimization in radiation oncology

M Ehrgott, A Holder - Journal of Radiation Oncology Informatics, 2014 - redalyc.org
Operations Research has a successful tradition of applying mathematical analysis to a wide
range of applications, and problems in Medical Physics have been popular over the last …

Radiotherapy optimal design: An academic radiotherapy treatment design system

R Acosta, W Brick, A Hanna, A Holder, D Lara… - Operations research and …, 2009 - Springer
Optimally designing radiotherapy and radiosurgery treatments to increase the likelihood of a
successful recovery from cancer is an important application of operations research …

A Multiobjective Approach for Sector Duration Optimization in Stereotactic Radiosurgery Treatment Planning

OS¸ eker, M Cevik, M Bodur, Y Lee… - INFORMS Journal on …, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Sector duration optimization (SDO) is a problem arising in treatment planning for stereotactic
radiosurgery on Gamma Knife. Given a set of isocenter locations, SDO aims to select …