Treatment Planning Publications

Representation of dose response curves by cumulative gaussian and logistic equations.
S. Shalev, P. Therrien. Medical Physics 13, 615 (1986)

Radiation therapy treatment planning by the quantification of regret.
S. Shalev, P. Therrien. Medical Physics 13, 614 (1986)

Treatment planning with images of regret.
S. Shalev, L. Bartel, P. Therrien, P. Hahn, M. Carey. Int.J.Rad.Onc.Biol.Phys. 12, Supp. 1, 142 (1986)

Comparison of treatment planning techniques for external beam irradiation of the prostate using score functions.
S. Shalev, P. Hahn, L. Bartel, P. Therrien, M. Carey. Int.J.Rad.Onc.Biol.Phys. 12, Supp. 1, 137 (1986)

Parametric imaging for the optimization of radiotherapy treatment plans.
S. Shalev, P. Hahn, L. Bartel, P. Therrien, M. Carey. Proc. Computer Graphics '87, 3, 112-118 (1987)

Colour visualization as an aid to the comparison of treatment plans for ca prostate.
P. Hahn, S. Shalev, P. Therrien. Acta Oncologica 26, 313-315 (1987)

The quantitative evaluation of alternative treatment plans.
S. Shalev, P. Hahn, L. Bartel, P. Therrien, M. Carey. In: "The Use of Computers in Radiotherapy". (A.D. Bruinvis et al. eds.). Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (1987). pp. 115-118.

OSCAR - An objective approach to treatment plan evaluation.
S. Shalev, D. Viggars, P. Therrien, P. Hahn. Phys.Med.Biol. 33, Supp . 1, 13 (1988)

Treatment planning using Images of Regret.
S. Shalev, D. Viggars, M. Carey, M. Stewart. Medical Dosimetry 13, 57-61 (1988)

The objective evaluation of alternative treatment plans: I. Images of regret.
S. Shalev, L. Bartel, P. Therrien, P. Hahn, M. Carey. Int.J.Rad.Onc.Biol.Phys. 15, 763-767 (1988)

Towards an expert system for treatment planning.
S. Shalev, D. Viggars, P. Therrien. Proc. IEEE/EMBS New Orleans, 10, 1444-1445 (1988)

Optimization by minimizing regret.
D. Viggars, S. Shalev, P. Hahn. In Prediction of Response in Radiation Therapy. (B.R. Paliwal, J.F. Fowler, D. E. Herbert, T.J. Kinsella and C.G. Orton, eds.). AAPM Symposium Proceedings 7, 289-295 (1989)

The dosimetric implications of patient movement during radiation treatment.
S. Shalev, D. Viggars, L. Reinstein, K. Leszczynski, S. Cosby, T. Chu. Int. J. Rad. Onc. Biol. Phys. 17, Sup. 1, 158 (1989)

The interpretation of dose volume histograms.
D. Viggars, S. Shalev, M. Stewart. Int.J.Rad.Onc.Biol.Phys. 17, Sup. 1, 125 (1989)

Treatment planning for protocol-based radiation therapy.
P. Hahn, S. Shalev, D. Viggars, P. Therrien. Int.J.Rad.Onc.Biol.Phys. 18, 937-939 (1990)

Use of a concise prescription for specifying absolute dose distributions in external beam radiation therapy.
D. Viggars, S. Shalev. Radiology 173(P), 163 (1989)

The limitations imposed on conformal treatment planning by patient movement and set-up errors.
S. Shalev, D. Viggars, D. McCracken, J. Gatschuff. ART91, Tumor Response Monitoring and Treatment Planning, Munich, April 1991

Dose prescription using dose-volume constraints.
D. Viggars, S. Shalev, J. Gatschuff. Med. & Biol. Eng. & Comput., 29 Sup., 438 (1991)

The effect of localization uncertainty on dose distribution.
D. Viggars, S. El-Sayed, S. Larsson, S. Shalev, M. Stewart. Medical Physics 18, 1081 (1991)

The objective evaluation of alternative treatment plans: II Score functions.
S. Shalev, D. Viggars, M. Carey, P. Hahn. Int.J.Rad.Onc.Biol.Phys. 20, 1067-1073 (1991)

The quantitative analysis of 3-D treatment plans in the presence of organ movement.
D. Viggars, S. Shalev, M. Stewart, B. Hintz . Int.J.Rad.Onc.Biol.Phys. 21, Sup. 1, 145 (1991)

The optimization of margins to allow for organ movement.
S. Shalev, D. Viggars, M. Stewart, R. Dell'Oro, S. El-Sayed. Int.J.Rad.Onc.Biol.Phys. 24, Sup. 1, 159 (1992)

The objective evaluation of alternative treatment plans: III. The quantitative analysis of dose volume histograms
D. Viggars, S. Shalev, M. Stewart, P. Hahn. Int.J.Rad.Onc.Biol.Phys. 23, 419-427 (1992)

Automatic beam placement, sizing and shaping in three dimensional treatment planning.
U. Orhun, D. Viggars, S. Shalev. Medical Physics 19, 1137 (1992)

An investigation of margin sizes required to allow for localization uncertainties.
D. Viggars, R. Dell'Oro, S. El-Sayed, U. Orhun, S. Shalev. Rad. Oncol. 24 Sup., S33 (1992)

Knowledge-based auto-contouring of critical organs on CT-image slices: Application to ca prostate.
U. Orhun, D. Viggars, S. Shalev. In "Three-Dimensional Treatment Planning" (Ed: P. Minet). WHO, Geneva, 1993. pp. 27-32.

Computer-assisted selection of treatment field parameters.
U. Orhun, D. Viggars, S. Shalev. In "Three-Dimensional Treatment Planning" (Ed: P. Minet). WHO, Geneva, 1993, 89-94.

Interventional verification: Implications for precision conformal therapy.
S. Shalev. In "Three-Dimensional Treatment Planning" (Ed: P. Minet). WHO, Geneva, 1993, pp 121-130.

Prescription-based visual evaluation of radiotherapy dose distributions: Three dimensional images of regret.
D. Viggars, U. Orhun, S. Shalev. In "Three-Dimensional Treatment Planning" (Ed: P. Minet). WHO, Geneva, 1993. pp. 207-211.

Compensating for random localization uncertainties in the radiation therapy for prostate cancer.
J.S. Lewis, C.W. Yu, D.A. Viggars, S. Shalev. Radiology 193(P), 174 (1994)

An efficient model of random positional uncertainties for use in calculating their effect on
radiation therapy dose distributions.
D.A. Viggars, C.W. Yu, J.S. Lewis, S. Shalev. Radiology 193(P), 142 (1994)

When and how to correct a patient set-up.
S. Shalev, G. Gluhchev. Proc. Int. Conf. Computers in Radiation Therapy, Manchester, 274-275 (1994)

An algorithm for the rapid calculation of the effects of random localization uncertainties on radiotherapy dose distributions.
D.A. Viggars, C.W. Yu, J.S. Lewis, S. Shalev. Proc. Int. Conf. Computers in Radiation Therapy, Manchester, 72-73 (1994)

Beam margins and PTV in the presence of organ movement.
S. Shalev. Medical Physics 22; 938 (1995)

Interventional correction of patient setup using portal imaging: A comparison of decision rules.
S. Shalev, G. Gluhchev. Int.J.Rad.Onc.Biol.Phys. 32, Sup. 1; 216 (1995)

The potential impact of portal imaging on planning margins.
S. Shalev. Radiotherapy & Oncology 40 (Suppl. 1), S65 (1996)

Optimizing decision rules for correcting field displacements during fractionated radiotherapy.
S. Shalev, G. Gluhchev. Radiotherapy & Oncology 40 (Suppl. 1), S116 (1996)

On the definition of beam margins in radiation therapy.
S. Shalev. LH Gray Conference on Quantitative Imaging in Oncology, Newcastle April 1995. Brit. J. Rad. 1997. In print.

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