INTRODUCTION In part one of this article series, “The CT/CBCT-Based Team Approach to Care: Identifying the Implant Patient and Prosthetic Options,” the concept of proper diagnosis and treatment planning to achieve optimal surgical and prosthetic outcomes were explored. The concept of utilizing low-radiation cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) 3-dimensional (3-D) imaging modalities to facilitat...

The Gamma Knife Check software is an FDA approved second check system for dose calculations in Gamma Knife radiosurgery. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy and the stability of the commercial software package as a tool for independent dose verification. The Gamma Knife Check software version 8.4 was commissioned for a Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion and a 4C unit at the Univer...

Introduction: This study was aimed to investigate the beneficial effects of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data in treatment planning for patients with CNS tumors in order to decrease the injury of functional regions of the brain followed by increase in life quality and survival of patients. This study pursues a novel approach in planning for the treatment of brai...

Software product release planning is a common activity in software development organizations. The planning problem is complex and difficult, but supporting tools have only emerged in the last few years. This paper presents a number of common planning challenges based on literature as requirements for tool support, and then examines four software tools from the perspective of these challenges. T...

Optimally designing radiotherapy and radiosurgery treatments to increase the likelihood of a successful recovery from cancer is an important application of operations research. Researchers have been hindered by the lack of academic software that supports head-to-head comparisons of different techniques, and this article addresses the inherent difficulties of designing and implementing an academ...

Introduction: Nowadays Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) is a common method for treating prostate cancers. Must of the Monte Carlo software cannot simulate the IMRT procedures due to inability of these soft wares to simulate the multi leaf collimator (MLC) positions or movements. A new user-friendly software based on the PENELOPE Monte Carlo code named PRIMO was published...

introduction radiotherapy with small fields is used widely in newly developed techniques. additionally, dose calculation accuracy of treatment planning systems in small fields plays a crucial role in treatment outcome. in the present study, dose calculation accuracy of two commercial treatment planning systems was evaluated against monte carlo method. materials and methods siemens once or linea...

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A historical project is used as a reference model for the verification planning process. The planning equations and an example are presented. The example objective set is to increase the level of defect removal from thefinal softwwe from the historical level of 35% to about 88% of the dejects introduced into the code and to reduce the overall number of delivered defects/KLOC by 85%. The example...