Radiation Oncology Treatment Using Optimization Techniques

Stereotactic radiosurgery is a three dimensional coordination that locates a target tumor detected in a diagnostic images with its actual location in the body andtargeting the tumor for precise radiation surgery rather than excision with a blade. The research result presented here describes development of an optimization technique to replaceconventional approach in radiation treatment. Precise radiation treatment is gaining popularity as an alternative to surgery intargeting tumors. The technique may apply to brain tumors following 3-D imaging and defining fixed reference points on thebody multi-objective optimization problem to decide on the shot sizes, length, location, and the number of radiation shots. Beside the precision and accuracy of the technique speed of treatment incomparison with the conventional method is displayed. In conventional method this is achieved through an iterativeapproach.

کلیدواژه ها:

Stereotactic ، Radiosurgery ، Optimization/Skeletonization ، Evolutionary Algorithm