====== Walkthroughs ======

===== Overview and Purpose =====

These walkthroughs are intended to be easy to follow step-by-step guides for creating plans using Astroid. There is a simple prostate patient, which is then followed by a complex head and neck plan. In many cases specific prescription, constraint, and other dosimetric values are given to use as input. It should be noted that these values are not intended to provide clinical guidelines and should in no way be considered a recommendation for values that are appropriate for clinical use. The intent is that after completing these walkthroughs, you will have gained an understanding of many of the details and much of the information that will be required to generate a complete Astroid treatment plan. Armed with this information and knowledge, you will then be able to complete the process using the clinical protocols and requirements from your facility to generate clinically appropriate patient treatment plans using Astroid. Additionally, since many of these parameters and items are dependent upon one another to produce high quality treatment plans, it is recommended that you follow along exactly in order to produce similar results. Once you have gained comfort and understanding of the various planning parameters, then it is encouraged that you modify the parameters and explore their impacts to gain additional familiarity with the system.


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