Clinical evaluation of a real-time inverse planning for Gamma Knife radiosurgery by convex optimization: a prospective comparative trial in a series of vestibular schwannoma patients

ConclusionThese preliminary results showed that this new IP method based on « efficient convex optimization algorithms », called IntuitivePlan®, provided high-quality dose plans in real time with excellent coverage, selectivity, and gradient indexes with optimized beam-on time. If the new IP evaluated here is able to compete in real time with the quality of the treatment plans of an expert with extensive radiosurgical experience, this could allow new planners/radiosurgeons with limited or no experience to immediately provide patients with high-quality GKRS for benign and malignant lesions.
Source: Acta Neurochirurgica - Category: Neurosurgery Source Type: research