Method and system for automated quality assurance and automated treatment planning in radiation therapy

TG Purdie, CJ McIntosh, I Svistoun - US Patent 10,475,537, 2019 - Google Patents
Methods and systems for evaluating a proposed treatment plan for radiation therapy, for
evaluating one or more delineated regions of interest for radiation therapy, and/or for …

A linear programming approach to inverse planning in Gamma Knife radiosurgery

J Sjölund, S Riad, M Hennix, H Nordström - Medical physics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Leksell Gamma Knife® is a stereotactic radiosurgery system that allows fine‐
grained control of the delivered dose distribution. We describe a new inverse planning …

A real-time optimal inverse planning for Gamma Knife radiosurgery by convex optimization: description of the system and first dosimetry data

M Levivier, RE Carrillo, R Charrier, A Martin… - Journal of …, 2018 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE The authors developed a new, real-time interactive inverse planning approach,
based on a fully convex framework, to be used for Gamma Knife radiosurgery. METHODS …

A preliminary study on a multiresolution‐level inverse planning approach for Gamma Knife radiosurgery

Z Tian, X Yang, M Giles, T Wang, H Gao… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose With many plan variables to determine, manual forward planning for Gamma Knife
(GK) radiosurgery is very challenging. Inverse planning eases GK planning by determining …

Comparison of anatomically informed class solution template trajectories with patient‐specific trajectories for stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy

JD Lincoln, RL MacDonald, B Little… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Class solution template trajectories are used clinically for efficiency, safety, and
reproducibility. The aim was to develop class solutions for single cranial metastases …

Development and validation of a comprehensive patient‐specific quality assurance program for a novel stereotactic radiation delivery system for breast lesions

SJ Becker, Y Niu, Y Mutaf, S Chen… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Purpose The GammaPod is a dedicated prone breast stereotactic radiosurgery
(SRS) machine composed of 25 cobalt‐60 sources which rotate around the breast to create …

Distributed and scalable optimization for robust proton treatment planning

A Fu, VT Taasti, M Zarepisheh - Medical physics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background The importance of robust proton treatment planning to mitigate the impact of
uncertainty is well understood. However, its computational cost grows with the number of …

Improved α-GAN architecture for generating 3D connected volumes with an application to radiosurgery treatment planning

SM Jafari, M Cevik, A Basar - Applied Intelligence, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have gained significant attention in
several computer vision tasks for generating high-quality synthetic data. Various medical …

[LIBRO][B] An examination of Benders' decomposition approaches in large-scale healthcare optimization problems

C Luong - 2015 - search.proquest.com
Benders' decomposition is an important tool used to solve large-scale optimization problems
found in healthcare. Radiation therapy and operating room planning and scheduling are two …

[HTML][HTML] Treatment Planning Methods for Dose Painting by Numbers Treatment in Gamma Knife Radiosurgery

BZ Tham, DM Aleman, H Nordström, N Nygren… - Advances in Radiation …, 2024 - Elsevier
Purpose Dose painting radiation therapy delivers a nonuniform dose to tumors to account for
heterogeneous radiosensitivity. With recent and ongoing development of Gamma Knife …