An uncertainty-incorporated method for fast beam angle selection in intensity-modulated proton therapy.

Aim: We propose a novel metric called ψ - score to rank the Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy (IMPT) beams in the order of their optimality and robustness. The beams ranked based on this metric were accordingly chosen for IMPT optimization. The objective of this work is to study the effectiveness of the proposed method in various clinical cases.

A Novel Method for Improving VMAT Plan Quality and Deliverability.

Background: A new VMAT method called "Augmented Arc" (or simply Aug Arc) is proposed. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the validity of the proposed method in different clinical cases. Basically, Aug Arc refers to the portion(s) of the VMAT arc that is augmented with an additional arc to improve the plan quality.

Evaluation of plan quality improvements in PlanIQ-guided Autoplanning.

Aim: Philips recently integrated PlanIQ with Autoplan® in Pinnacle TPS (V16.2). The objective of the present work is to quantitatively demonstrate how this integration improves the plan quality.