Texas Oncology–San Antonio medical physicists Carlos Esquivel, Ph.D., and Rebecca McInturf participated in an exercise to compare the quality of treatment plans utilizing various tools. A poster detailing the results was accepted by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and will be presented at the society's national meeting on August 1 in Denver, CO.
The topic of the poster is "IMRT Plan Quality Assessment Using Pinnacle’s Auto-Planning and Sun Nuclear Corporation’s PlanIQ Plan Evaluation and Feasibility."
Patient plans from varying treatment sites were originally optimized and treated based on a feasibility assessment using Sun Nuclear’s PlanIQ tool. The feasibility objectives from PlanIQ were then used within a recently introduced accelerated dose engine for IMRT and VMAT, Philips’ Auto-Planning. The objective was to assess and compare the quality of plans produced by Auto-Planning, with one iteration, compared to plans generated with multiple iterations and PlanIQ alone.