Course book Advanced Treatment Planning 2018

17 tips and tricks for happy IMRT planning

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try to minimise the use of constraints and rather use objectives with high weights

• from a radiobiology perspective there is no such thing a hard constraint

• hard constraints will generally slow down the optimization process and sometimes makes it instable

• hard constraints bias the total cost making it more difficult to judge your final result

setting objectives

start optimisation

beam setup

evaluate

contouring