Course book Advanced Treatment Planning 2018

Number of beams, class solutions

standard number of beams is often applied to specific treatment sites: - 3,5 or 7 beams in prostate treatment - 5,7,9 beams in head and neck treatment

class solution = ‘group average’ set of constraints, number of beams and beam angles (for an ‘average’ patient!?)

consider class solutions a good starting point look at differences between this patient and the group (different shape, rotations, etc.)