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Consistency Check Of Planned Adaptive Option On Helical Tomotherapy., M Schirm, S Yartsev, G Bauman, Jerry J. Battista Dr., Jacob Van Dyk

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This study aims to evaluate a new Planned Adaptive software (TomoTherapy Inc., Madison, WI) of the helical tomotherapy system by retrospective verification and adaptive re-planning of radiation treatment. Four patients with different disease sites (brain, nasal cavity, lungs, prostate) were planned in duplicate using the diagnostic planning kVCT data set and MVCT studies of the first treatment fraction with the same optimization parameters for both plan types. The dosimetric characteristics of minimum, maximum, and mean dose to the targets as well as to organs at risk were compared. Both sets of plans were used for calculation of dose distributions in …

Oncolog Volume 53, Number 01, January 2008, John Lebas, Don Norwood

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• Prostate Cancer: A Tale of Two Therapies
• In Brief: Newly Identified Gene May Stop Development of Lung Cancers
• House Call: What You Should Know About Male Cancers
• Making Headway Against Myeloproliferative Disorders

Oncolog Volume 51, Number 01, January 2006, Stephanie P. Deming, Diane Witter

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• Fertility After Cancer
• Improving the Odds in Lung Cancer
• House Call: Understanding the Basics of Melanoma