Correction to: Automated IMRT planning in Pinnacle—A study in head-and-neck cancer

Abstract

Unfortunately, parts of the 'Materials and Methods section' and a sentence in the 'Discussion section' had to be corrected. On page 3, left column, the complete first paragraph was corrected and now reads as follows: Auto-Planning is fully integrated into Pinnacle v.9.10 TPS to automate the inverse planning process [11-13]. On page 3, left column, the complete third paragraph was corrected and now reads as follows: Thus, Auto-planning is designed to automatically perform many of the manual operations in the IMRT planning process. On page 3, right column, second paragraph to page 4 left column, first paragraph, the complete section was corrected and now reads as follows: Table 2 shows the Auto-Planning optimization preset used for the patients in this study. In the Advanced Setting Tab (see also Ref. 20

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