Conformal Radiotherapy
Therapeutic Effect of Three Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy Combined with Tegafur Gimeracil and Oteracil Potassium in the Treatment of Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer
... three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy combined with Tegafur Gimeracil and Oteracil Potassium in the treatment of locally advanced esophageal ...three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy ...
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Radiotherapy Intensified by Increase of Fraction Size Using Three Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy in Bladder Preservation Therapy
... Meanwhile, three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) can heighten conformity much more than 2DRT. That is, the treatment targets are clearly visible with the progress of diagnostic imaging, and the ...
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Efficacy of three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy combined with transarterial chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein tumor thrombus
... geted radiotherapy techniques, including three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT), intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), and stereotactic body radio- therapy ...
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Conformal Radiotherapy for Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Gallbladder: A Case Report
... 153 g/L, white blood cells 5.2 × 10 9 /L, Neutrophils 58.2%, platelets 211 × 10 9 /L, total bilirubin 10.4 mmol/L, ala- nine aminotransferase 24 U/L, aspartate aminotransferase 31 U/L, alkaline phosphatase 71 U/L, ...
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Dosimetric Comparison of Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy versus Three Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy for Patients with Brain Tumors
... Purpose: To compare target dose distribution and dose to normal tissue for brain tumors using intensity-modulated and three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy. Methods and Materials: Twelve patients ...
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Preoperative Conformal Radiotherapy Concurrently with Paclitaxel/Carboplatin in Gastric Cancer
... neoadjuvant conformal radiotherapy concurrently with carboplatin-paclitaxel followed by ...Neoadjuvant radiotherapy concomitant with carboplatin-paclitaxel chemotherapy is a well-tolerated approach ...
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Superiority of helical tomotherapy on liver sparing and dose escalation in hepatocellular carcinoma: a comparison study of three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy and intensity-modulated radiotherapy
... Modern radiation oncologists have more choice avail- able to them than ever before for highly precise delivery of partial liver irradiation, such as three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT), ...
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A FAST MORPHING-BASED INTERPOLATION FOR MEDICAL IMAGES: APPLICATION TO CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY
... A method is presented for fast interpolation between medical images. The method is intended for both slice and projective interpolation. It allows offline interpolation between neighboring slices in tomographic data. ...
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The clinical effects of low-dose splenic irradiation combined with chest three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy on patients with locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: a randomized clinical trial
... three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (Figure ...the radiotherapy plan. The full set of U.S. Varian radiotherapy equipment (Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA, US) was utilized to ...
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Quality assurance of modern image guided 3D-conformal radiotherapy treatments
... Conclusion: The results of machine specific QA as well as relative and absolute dosimetric QA of patient treatments are well within the acceptable limits of values mentioned in the national and international protocols. ...
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Three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy by delineations on CT-based simulation in different respiratory phases for the treatment of senile patients with non-small cell lung cancer
... Most elderly patients with NSCLC may exhibit limited toler- ance to surgery, chemotherapy, and conventional radiotherapy because of comorbidities such as cardiovascular disease and chronic pulmonary diseases, or ...
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... of radiotherapy (24-30 Gy) and use of conformal radiotherapy in the form of 3DCRT or Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) leads to significant reduction in radiation related acute and late ...
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A retrospective comparison of intensity modulated arc therapy and 3 dimensional conformal approaches in the planning of grade 3 gliomas
... In practice many departments have progressed to intensity modulated arc therapy (IMAT) also referred to as RapidArc and volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) from the manufacturers of Varian and Elekta respectively. ...
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Characterisation of fibrosis in chemically-induced rat mammary carcinomas using multi-modal endogenous contrast MRI on a 1.5T clinical platform
... (2016) Radiation-induced fibrosis in the boost area after three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy with a simultaneous integrated boost technique for early-stage breast cancer: A multi[r] ...
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Radiation dose to the nodal regions during prone versus supine breast irradiation
... Materials and methods: In 100 breast cancer cases awaiting postoperative whole-breast radiotherapy, conformal radiotherapy plans were prospectively generated in both prone and supine positions. The ...
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Evaluation of Efficacy and Toxicity of Helical Tomotherapy in the Treatment of Patients with Nasal NK/T Cell Lymphoma
... in radiotherapy due to the complex ana- tomical ...After radiotherapy the majority of patients had dry mouth and taste changes in varying degrees, and a small portion of patients had compromised hearing or ...
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3D Conformal Re Irradiation with Temozolamide for Recurrent Glioblastoma: A Prospective Cohort Study
... Introduction and objectives: Salvage treatment of recurrent Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most challenging tasks in neuro-oncology. There is no standard treatment for recurrent GBM as options include resection, chemo- ...
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Helical tomotherapy provides efficacy similar to that of intensity-modulated radiation therapy with dosimetric benefits for endometrial carcinoma
... dose to organs at risk could be decreased with IMRT and helical tomotherapy compared with three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy. Further, when analyzing helical tomotherapy plans, using IMRT plans as the ...
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Radiotherapy Conformal Wedge Computational Simulations,Optimization Algorithms, and Exact Limit Angle Approach F Casesnoves MSc (Physics) MD IIIS International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (Individual Researcher Member)
... wedge. Conformal/Standard radiotherapy wedges [refs 3-7,Casesnoves 2005] present several bioengineering-industrial design difficulties to obtain an optimal beam/beamlets-IMRT upper-surface radiation ...
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Short course hypofractionated whole breast irradiation after conservative surgery: a single institution phase II study
... Distributions of covariates between samples were analyzed by contingency tables (chi square test) and by non- parametric tests (Mann U Whitney). Actuarial curves are computed with the Kaplan-Meier method from the last ...
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