Automatic treatment planning improves the clinical quality of head and neck cancer treatment plans

Highlights • Autoplan can produce clinically better VMAT radiotherapy plans for H&N cancer.• Autoplan plans have similar target coverage with significant sparing of OAR.• With a template the TPS can automatically create better plans than manually created plans.

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