IMRT

Issues with early solutions

➔ Computer treatment planning systems (TPS), inverse planning approaches and optimizer algorithms were in their early days

➔ Dependence on another new technology at that time, the multi-leaf collimator (MLC), which was initially designed to replace cerobend blocks

“A handful of research oriented centers developed their own custom build solution of rotational therapy solutions (IMAT, …).” -William Beaumont Hospital group, USA, C. Yu et al. -UZ Gent, Belgium, De Neve et al. -…