Mohammad Hussein

TL;DR: This paper critically reviews the body of publications on intensity modulated radiotherapy treatment planning approaches with automation support up to April 2018 and describes the different types of automation algorithms, including the advantages and current limitations.

TL;DR: The variability of the global gamma index (γ) analysis in various commercial IMRT/VMAT QA systems and the impact of measurement with low resolution detector arrays on γ indicates that the detector array configuration and resolution have greater impact on the experimental calculation of γ due to under-sampling of the dose distribution, blurring effects, noise, or a combination.

TL;DR: The Varian RapidPlan™ system was able to produce IMRT & VMAT treatment plans in the pelvis, in a single optimisation, that had comparable sparing and comparable or better conformity than the original clinically acceptable plans.

TL;DR: This review summarises and highlights the computational challenges of the γ calculation and sheds light on some of these issues by means of a bespoke MATLAB software to demonstrate the impact of interpolation, γ search distance, resolution and 2D and 3D calculations.

TL;DR: The overall aim of this framework and scoring system is to improve the scientific quality of treatment planning studies and papers, and it might also be used by reviewers and journal editors to help to evaluate scientific manuscripts reporting planning studies.