Local High-Dose Radiotherapy and Sparing of Normal Tissue Using Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) for Mucosal Melanoma of the Nasal Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses

Abstract

Local dose escalation with IMRT yields good treatment results with respect to local and distant tumor control as well as survival, while treatment-related toxicity can be minimized.

Helical Tomotherapy as a New Treatment Technique for Whole Abdominal Irradiation

“…The purpose was to explore the potential of tomotherapy as a new method of image-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) to lower the dose to kidneys, liver and bone marrow while covering the peritoneal cavity with a homogeneous dose [8,15,16,23,24]. With a field width of 40 cm and a maximal length of 160 cm, helical tomotherapy is a very promising option for this kind of large and complexly shaped target volumes [1,2,6,10,12,17,19]. We provide the first clinical report on the use of tomotherapy in large-field WAI.…”

A Method for Improved Verification of Entire IMRT Plans by Film Dosimetry

“…Development and implementation of advanced radiotherapy delivery techniques such as IMRT [3,6,15,21] made individual patient dose validation essential. The quality assurance of one entire IMRT plan consists of a comparison between measured dose distribution and the dose distribution calculated with the TPS.…”

Patientenbezogenes Bild- und Datenmanagement in der Radioonkologie

“…Nach Einführung der stereotaktischen und der intensitäts-modulierten Strahlentherapie (IMRT) zwischen 1990 und 2000 haben die Komplexität der Bestrahlungen und die damit einhergehende Dokumentation dramatisch zugenommen [2,3,6]. Bei gleichzeitig steigenden Patientenzahlen hat sich der Anteil der derart komplex behandelten Patienten erhöht.…”