A new plan quality objective function for determining optimal collimator combinations in prostate cancer treatment with stereotactic body radiation therapy using CyberKnife.

Stereotactic body radiation therapy with CyberKnife for prostate cancer has long treatment times compared with conventional radiotherapy. This arises the need for designing treatment plans with short execution times. We propose an objective function for plan quality evaluation, which was used to det...

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Main Authors: Maria Varnava, Iori Sumida, Hirokazu Mizuno, Hiroya Shiomi, Osamu Suzuki, Yasuo Yoshioka, Kazuhiko Ogawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6258559?pdf=render