NCI/NSF Workshop on Operations Research Applied to Radiation Therapy Washington, DC, February 7-9, 2002

摘要

The workshop brought together researchers with specialties in optimization, radiation oncology, and medical physics to address fundamental problems associated with treatment planning optimization in radiation oncology. With the advancement of intensity-modulated radiation therapy and the associated high level of complexity involved in designing treatment plans, it is crucial that an interdisciplinary effort is made to integrate sophisticated optimization techniques into the treatment planning process and to explore cutting-edge methods of optimizing the clinical outcome of radiotherapy. To help shape the course of this developing technology, NCI and NSF sponsored a two-day workshop on Operations Research Applied to Radiation Therapy (ORART) held at Hyatt Dulles at Washington Dulles International Airport in Herndon, VA on February 7-9, 2002. Approximately thirty experts, from the radiation oncology, medical physics and operations research communities participated to help elucidate the research opportunities and challenges, and bound the scope of the proposed efforts.