Abstract:Purpose: Intensity‐modulated treatment planning methods have not previously accounted for systematic errors in tumor and tissue locations. We introduce a novel method for including systematic errors during the optimization phase, based on estimated probabilities of systematic geometrical shifts or tissue misidentification(i.e.tumor location). Method and Materials: Given a planning geometry, the users supply estimates of the systematic probability that tissues are actually displaced by a given vector(“ensemble”… Show more
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