For prostate and head and neck cases, all investigated IMRT techniques provide highly conformal treatment plans in terms of both target coverage and critical structure sparing.
Background: The purpose of this proof-of-principle study was to test the ability of an intensitymodulated radiotherapy (IMRT) technique to reduce the radiation dose to the heart plus the left ventricle and a coronary artery. Radiation-induced heart disease might be a serious complication in long-term cancer survivors.
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