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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2022

Including Volume Effects in Biological Treatment Plan Optimization for Carbon Ion Therapy: Generalized Equivalent Uniform Dose-Based Objective in TRiP98.

Marco Battestini, Marco Schwarz, Michael Krämer, Emanuele Scifoni

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Marco BattestiniDepartment of Physics, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
Marco SchwarzTrento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications (TIFPA), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Trento, Italy.
Michael KrämerBiophysics Department, GSI - Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany.
Emanuele ScifoniTrento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications (TIFPA), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Trento, Italy.

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Abstract

We describe a way to include biologically based objectives in plan optimization specific for carbon ion therapy, beyond the standard voxel-dose-based criteria already implemented in TRiP98, research planning software for ion beams. The aim is to account for volume effects-tissue architecture-dependent response to damage-in the optimization procedure, using the concept of generalized equivalent uniform dose (gEUD), which is an expression to convert a heterogeneous dose distribution (e.g., in an organ at risk (OAR)) into a uniform dose associated with the same biological effect. Moreover, gEUD is closely related to normal tissue complication probability (NTCP). The multi-field optimization problem here takes also into account the relative biological effectiveness (RBE), which in the case of ion beams is not factorizable and introduces strong non-linearity. We implemented the gEUD-based optimization in TRiP98, allowing us to control the whole dose-volume histogram (DVH) shape of OAR with a single objective by adjusting the prescribed

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biological treatment planningcarbon ion therapygeneralized equivalent uniform dose (gEUD)normal tissue complication probability (NTCP)treatment plan optimizationTRiP98volume effect in radiotherapy

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