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  • Medical Physics
  • Radiation Oncology
  • Computational Biology

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  • Treatment plan optimization in radiation therapy is sensitive to the chosen objective function.
  • Existing methods may not always yield the best clinical outcome for specific patient scenarios.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a novel volume-based objective function for inverse treatment planning.
  • To improve the minimization of under- or overdosed voxels in critical structures and targets.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized mixed integer programming to formulate a new volume-based objective function.
  • Applied the optimization approach to patient cases of prostate and oropharyngeal cancer.
  • Compared solutions from standard dose-based objectives with those from the new volume-based objectives.

Main Results:

  • The volume-based objective function successfully minimized under/overdosed voxels.
  • For prostate cancer, improved sparing of the rectum and bladder was achieved.
  • For oropharyngeal cancer, solutions met intensity-modulated radiation therapy protocols with enhanced sparing of organs like parotid glands.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed volume-based objective function offers a flexible and effective method for optimizing radiation therapy plans.
  • This approach allows for tailored solutions that better meet specific clinical objectives and improve organ sparing.
  • The method also facilitates the assessment of dose-volume histogram constraint feasibility.