Accurate Accumulation of Dose for Improved Understanding of Radiation Effects in Normal Tissue

The goal of generating accurate DA distributions to target and normal tissues as a part of routine radiotherapy practice is feasible. However, key research and development areas need to be accelerated, including: auto-segmentation, deformation modeling, dose accumulation, dose calculation in complex environments, and methods of estimating the uncertainty in the accumulated dose distribution over the course of therapy. In addition to these...