Publications by authors named "Danah Pross"
Background: Dose calculation and optimization algorithms in proton therapy treatment planning often have high computational requirements regarding time and memory. This can hinder the implementation of efficient workflows in clinics and prevent the use of new, elaborate treatment techniques aiming to improve clinical outcomes like robust optimization, arc, and adaptive proton therapy.
Purpose: A new method, namely, the beamlet-free algorithm, is presented to address the aforementioned issue by combining Monte Carlo dose calculation and optimization into a single algorithm and omitting the calculation of the time-consuming and costly dose influence matrix.