Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc.

Hugo J W L Aerts

Sriram Krishnan

Glenn Fung

Shipeng Yu

Philippe Lambin

Andreas Lubbertus Aloysius Johannes Dekker

Dirk De Ruysscher

Claudia Offermann

Michel Oellers

Steven Florian Petit

Functional imaging information is used to determine a probability of residual disease given a treatment. The functional imaging information shows different characteristic levels for different regions of the tumor. The probability is output for planning use and/or used to automatically determine dose by region. Using the probability, the dose may be distributed by region so that some regions receive a greater dose than other regions. This distribution by region of dose more likely treats the tumor with a same dose, allows a lesser dose to sufficient treat the tumor, and/or allows a greater dose with a lesser or no increase in risk to normal tissue. The dose plan may account for personalized tumors as each patient may have distinct tumors. Probability of dose application accuracy may also be used, so that a combined treatment probability allows efficient dose planning.

Dose distribution modeling by region from functional imaging

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Maastricht, Netherlands

Hugo J W L Aerts