Rasmus Bokrantz, PhD

Publications

Journal papers

• (with E. Engwall, C. Battinelli, V. Wase, O. Martin, L. Glimelius, B. Andersson and A. Fredriksson) Fast robust optimization of proton PBS arc therapy plans using early energy layer selection and spot assignment, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 67(6), 2022.
• (with T. Zhang and J. Olsson) Probabilistic Pareto plan generation for semiautomated multicriteria radiation therapy treatment planning, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 67(4), 2022.
• (with T. Zhang and J. Olsson) Probabilistic feature extraction, dose statistic prediction and dose mimicking for automated radiation therapy treatment planning, Medical Physics, 48(9), 2021.
• (with T. Zhang and J. Olsson) Direct optimization of dose–volume histogram metrics in radiation therapy treatment planning, Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, 6(6), 2020.
• (with M. Wedenberg and P. Sandwall) Dynamic conformal arcs for lung stereotactic body radiation therapy: A comparison with volumetric-modulated arc therapy, Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 2019.
• (with J. van Amerongen and D. Craft) Technical note: Improving VMAT delivery efficiency by optimizing the dynamic collimator trajectory, Medical Physics, 46(9): 3877-3882, 2019.
• (with J. Unkelbach, M. Alber, M. Bangert, T. C. Y. Chan, J. Deasy, A. Fredriksson, B. Gorissen, M. van Herk, W. Liu, H. Mahmoudzadeh, O. Nohadani, J. V. Siebers, M. G. Witte, and H. Xu) Robust radiotherapy planning, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 63(22): 22TR02, 2018.
• (with A. Fredriksson) Necessary and sufficient conditions for Pareto efficiency in robust multiobjective optimization, European Journal of Operational Research, 262(2): 682-692, 2017. Post-print version.
• (with A. Fredriksson) Scenario-based radiation therapy margins for patient setup, organ motion, and particle range uncertainty, Physics in Medicine and Biology 62(4): 1342-1357, 2017.
• (with A. Fredriksson) The scenario-based generalization of radiation therapy margins, Physics in Medicine and Biology 61(5): 2067-2082, 2016.
• (with K. Miettinen) Projections onto the Pareto surface in multicriteria radiation therapy optimization, Medical Physics 42(10): 5862-5870, 2015.
• (with J. Unkelbach, T. Bortfeld, D. Craft, M. Alber, M. Bangert, D. Chen, R. Li, L. Xing, C. Men, S. Nill, D. Papp, E. Romeijn, and E. Salari) Optimization approaches to volumetric modulated arc therapy planning, Medical Physics 42(3): 1367-1377, 2015.
• (with A. Fredriksson) A critical evaluation of worst case optimization methods for robust intensity-modulated proton therapy planning, Medical Physics 41(8): 081701, 2014.
• (with C. McGarry, J. O'Sullivan and A. Hounsell) Advantages and limitations of navigation-based multicriteria optimization (MCO) for localized prostate cancer IMRT planning, Medical Dosimetry 39(3): 205-211, 2014.
• (with A. Fredriksson) Deliverable navigation for multicriteria intensity-modulated radiation therapy planning by combining shared and individual apertures, Physics in Medicine and Biology 58(21): 7683-7679, 2013.
• Distributed approximation of Pareto surfaces in multicriteria radiation therapy treatment planning, Physics in Medicine and Biology 58(11): 3501-3516, 2013. Shortlisted for the Roberts Prize for best paper published in 2013.
• (with A. Forsgren) An algorithm for approximating convex Pareto surfaces based on dual techniques. INFORMS Journal on Computing 25(2): 377-393, 2013.
• Multicriteria optimization for volumetric-modulated arc therapy by decomposition into a fluence-based relaxation and a segment weight-based restriction, Medical Physics 39(11): 6712-6724, 2012.

Dissertation

• Multicriteria optimization for managing tradeoffs in radiation therapy treatment planning, PhD thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2013. Awarded the Stockholm Mathematics Centre Prize for excellent doctoral dissertation.

Education

• PhD in Applied and Computational Mathematics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2013.
• MSc in Engineering Physics, Uppsala University, 2008.

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