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Strategies For Reducing The Impact Of Tumour Motion During Helical Tomotherapy, Bryan Kim
Strategies For Reducing The Impact Of Tumour Motion During Helical Tomotherapy, Bryan Kim
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Tumour motion presents a significant limitation for effective radiotherapy of lung cancer, and more specifically for helical tomotherapy. The simultaneous and continuous movements of tomotherapy subsystems (gantry, couch, and binary multi-leaf collimator) can lead to inaccurate dose delivery, when combined with tumour motion. In this thesis, we have investigated the impact of tumour motion and strategies to reduce the resulting dose discrepancies for helical tomotherapy, through computer simulations and film measurements performed in a dynamic body phantom. Three distinctively different types of dose discrepancies have been isolated: dose rounding, dose rippling, and the intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) asynchronization effect. Each …