Three IMRT advanced planning tools: A multi-institutional side-by-side comparison.

CONCLUSION: With minimal planner interventions, advanced treatment planning tools are clinically useful, producing a plan quality similarly to or better than manual plans, improving plan consistency. For difficult cases such as HN cancer, advanced planning tools can further reduce radiation doses to numerous OARs while delivering adequate dose to the tumor targets.
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Source: Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics - July 30, 2019 Category: Physics Authors: Lu L, Sheng Y, Donaghue J, Liu Shen Z, Kolar M, Wu QJ, Xia P Tags: J Appl Clin Med Phys Source Type: research