Resumen de Comments on: Intensity modulated radiation therapy treatment plan optimization 5
Martin Savelsbergh
It has been a pleasure to read the paper by Romeijn and Dempsey on Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT). IMRT treatment planning has been an active research area and it has attracted the attention of the best and brightest in the optimization community; far more so than any other application in the medical field. The reason is simple: not only will improvements in the quality of IMRT treatment plans and efficiency gains in their generation save lives, efficient generation of high-quality IMRT treatment plans is an enormously challenging optimization problem. In fact, it encompasses a variety of related optimization problems, as pointed out in Romeijn and Dwempsey’s paper, from beam angle selection to collimator leaf sequencing.
