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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Radiat Plasma Med Sci. 2021 Aug 24;6(2):158–181. doi: 10.1109/TRPMS.2021.3107454

Fig. 8.

Fig. 8.

The inverse treatment planning process begins with delineation of target volumes and OARs on medical images. Optimization objectives are defined and passed to the optimizer algorithm of the TPS. If the resulting plan is not acceptable, trade-off evaluation is performed to define new targets iteratively until a clinical plan is accepted.