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Plan optimization with L0-norm and group sparsity constraints for a new rotational, intensity-modulated brachytherapy for cervical cancer

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  • Hojin Kim
  • Young Kyung Lim
  • Youngmoon Goh
  • Chiyoung Jeong
  • Ui-Jung Hwang
  • Sang Hyoun Choi
  • Byungchul Cho
  • Jungwon Kwak

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The aim of this work is to build a framework that comprehends inverse planning procedure and plan optimization algorithm tailored to a novel directional beam intensity-modulated brachytherapy (IMBT) of cervical cancer using a rotatable, single-channel radiation shield. Inverse planning is required for finding optimal beam emitting direction, source dwell position and dwell time, which begin with creating a kernel matrix for each structure based on Monte-Carlo simulated dose distribution in the rotatable shield. For efficient beam delivery and less transit dose, the number of source dwell positions and angles needs to be minimized. It can be solved by L0-norm regularization for fewest possible dwell points, and by group sparsity constraint in L2,p-norm (0≤p

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  • Hojin Kim & Young Kyung Lim & Youngmoon Goh & Chiyoung Jeong & Ui-Jung Hwang & Sang Hyoun Choi & Byungchul Cho & Jungwon Kwak, 2020. "Plan optimization with L0-norm and group sparsity constraints for a new rotational, intensity-modulated brachytherapy for cervical cancer," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(7), pages 1-19, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0236585
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236585
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