Robustness in radiation therapy - ERP Spain.com - España y América Latina

The quality of a radiation treatment plan strongly depends on the ability to deal with the uncertainties typically originating from setup and density interpretation errors, as well as from changes in patient anatomy. The creation of robust treatment plans and an evaluation of robustness prior to delivery is therefore one of the main challenges in radiation therapy. During the first part of this webinar, Erik Engwall, head of physics at RaySearch, presents versatile tools to address these challenges: -Robust optimization with the inclusion of 4DCT images, and setup and density uncertainties -Robustness evaluation over multiple error scenarios In the second part, Erik Korevaar, a medical physicist at UMCG, will present how robust optimization is used in a clinical setting and discuss appropriate metrics for robustness evaluation based on previous clinical experience.