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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2013
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX (US);
Prashant Kumar, Bangalore, IN;
Karl Antonin Bzdusek, Madison, WI (US);
Vaitheeswaran Ranganathan, Bangalore, IN;
Matthew Palmer, Houston, TX (US);
Michael Kantor, Houston, TX (US);
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A therapy planning system () and method generate an optimal treatment plan. A plurality of objectives are automatically formulated () based on a plurality of clinical goals including dose profiles and priorities. The dose profiles and the priorities correspond to a plurality of structures including a plurality of target and/or critical structures identified within a planning image. Further, a plurality of treatment plan parameters are optimized () based on the plurality of objectives to generate a treatment plan. The plurality of objectives are reformulated () and the plurality of treatment plan parameters are reoptimized () based on the reformulated plurality of objectives to generate a reoptimized treatment plan. The optimizing () is repeated based on the reformulated plurality of objectives to generate a reformulated treatment plan.