Development of automated whole breast 3D planning with tangential fields.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives/purposes

Whole breast 3D treatment planning with tangential fields often requires multiple manual adjustments, leading to inefficiency and variability. This study presents and evaluates an in-house developed automated script designed to improve planning efficiency and consistency for breast radiotherapy using tangential fields.

Materials/methods

19 breast cancer patients from an IRB-approved study were selected. The automated script was developed to generate beam segments through a three-step process, (1) verification of field setup, and generation of breast planning target volume (PTV), (2) duplication of the clinical plan with open tangents and (3) automatic generation of beam segments to reduce hotspot iteratively. Plans produced by the automated script (AS) we

SUBMITTER: Busch C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12695690 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature