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Classification Of Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy Plans, Alice Liu
Classification Of Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy Plans, Alice Liu
The International Student Science Fair 2018
Abstract
Title: Classification of IMPT Plans
Purpose:
Create a method to aid physicists and dosimetrists in the classification of Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy treatment plans.
Method:
A Python program was developed to read structure sets and dose grids from radiation treatment plans. The program outputs field-specific histograms of the number of voxels within the planning target volume that received dose and normalizes each histogram to the percent volume of the target that received each field’s contribution of the total dose. It then determines the number of Gaussian distributions in each histogram, which serves as an initial classification metric, and calculates …