Course book Advanced Treatment Planning 2018

17 tips and tricks for happy IMRT planning

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avoid voxels with conflicting objectives

create some hierarchy in your objectives in case a organ at risk has an overlap with your target volume. (some TPSs intrinsically rank the objectives)

conflicting objectives to the same voxels will increase to total cost and distract the optimiser from real optimisation problems

carefully chosen objectives will always yield a low total cost in the end of the optimisation

setting objectives

start optimisation

beam setup

evaluate

contouring