Implementation of a Knowledge-Based Treatment Planning Model for Cardiac-Sparing Lung Radiation Therapy

Purpose: High radiation doses to the heart have been correlated with poor overall survival in patients receiving radiation therapy for stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We built a knowledge-based planning (KBP) tool to limit the dose to the heart during creation of volumetric modulated a...

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Main Authors: Joseph Harms, PhD, Jiahan Zhang, PhD, Oluwatosin Kayode, MS, Jonathan Wolf, MS, Sibo Tian, MD, Neal McCall, MD, Kristin A. Higgins, MD, Richard Castillo, PhD, Xiaofeng Yang, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-11-01
Series:Advances in Radiation Oncology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452109421001032