Pinar Dursun Gunduz

Title: Pinar Dursun Gunduz and Automated VMAT Treatment Planning.

Introduction

Pinar Dursun Gunduz is an inventor associated with New York, NY, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her patent work addresses automated planning for volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), a form of external radiation therapy.

Latest Patents

Gunduz is associated with 1 patent, titled “Methods and Systems for Automated Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) for External Radiation Therapy.” The invention describes a treatment-planning approach in which a processor uses a current solution to a non-convex VMAT optimization problem to define a search region for each leaf in a multileaf collimator (MLC). It merges beamlets associated with each leaf’s movement range, uses that merging to transform the problem into a convex optimization problem, and solves the transformed problem to determine updated leaf positions. This method is designed to support automated VMAT treatment planning.

Career Highlights

The available information connects Gunduz’s patent activity with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her work focuses on computational methods for radiation therapy planning, particularly optimization involving MLC leaf positions and beamlet grouping.

Collaborations

The patent information names Masoud Zarepisheh and Joseph Owen Deasy among Gunduz’s coworkers. Their shared institutional context is Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Conclusion

Pinar Dursun Gunduz’s patent describes an optimization method that converts a non-convex VMAT planning problem into a convex one, contributing to research in automated external radiation therapy planning.