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Ari Harju

Esa Kuusela

Juha Kauppinen

Zheyong Fan

Linda Laakkonen

Christopher Boylan

Marko Rusanen

Sami P Siljamaki

Viljo Petaja

Tuomas Erik Torsti

Timo Ikonen

Antti Karjalainen

Petri Hiltunen

Petri Kokkonen

Marko T Rusanen

Tuomas E Torsti

These teachings facilitate the administration of therapeutic radiation to a heterogeneous patient volume using a radiation beam source. More particularly, these teachings provide for determining a cross-sectional size of a radiation beam as corresponds to that radiation beam source and also for determining density information corresponding to the aforementioned heterogeneous body. These teachings then provide for generating a three-dimensional radiation dose calculation for the heterogeneous body using a control circuit configured as a convolution/superposition based dose calculator using a three-dimensional energy-spreading kernel. By one approach, these teachings provide for the calculator scaling total energy released per mass as a function of the cross-sectional size and energy of the radiation beam and the aforementioned density information.

Method and apparatus to facilitate administering therapeutic radiation to a heterogeneous body

Example methods and systems for radiotherapy treatment planning based on treatment delivery efficiency are described. One example method may comprise a computer system configuring dosimetric planning objective(s) and non-dosimetric planning objective(s) associated with efficiency of treatment delivery. A set of multiple treatment plan variants may be generated based on the dosimetric planning objective(s) and non-dosimetric planning objective(s). A first treatment plan associated with a first tradeoff and a second treatment plan associated with a second tradeoff may then be identified from the set of multiple treatment plan variants. The second treatment plan may be associated with improved efficiency of treatment delivery compared to the first treatment plan.

Radiotherapy treatment planning based on treatment delivery efficiency

A method of calculating radiation dose includes dosimetric projection of a collimator geometry. The method includes defining a three-dimensional (3D) geometry of a collimating device which defines an aperture configured to allow a radiation beam passing through, projecting the collimating device along the radiation beam into a two-dimensional (2D) geometry in a plane, calculating dosimetric opacity values of the collimating device at locations adjacent to the aperture based on the 3D geometry of the collimating device, and calculating transport of the radiation beam through the collimating device based on the 2D geometry projected in the plane and using the dosimetric opacity values of the collimating device at the locations adjacent to the aperture.

Dosimetric projection of collimator geometry

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