Published November 2017
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Journal article
Cranio spinal irradiation techniques: a dosimetric comparison of helical tomotherapy with volumetric modulated arc therapy
Creators
- 1. Department of Oncology, Apollo Cancer Hospital, Hyderabad (India)
- 2. School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology University, Vellore (India)
Description
Cranio Spinal Irradiation (CSI) is a challenging procedure of treating various central nervous system malignancies. Large PTV size (includes whole Brain and Spinal Cord and overlying meninges) requires field matching due to technical limitations of conventional linear accelerators (LA), which cannot irradiate such volumes as a single isocentre treatment. Helical Tomotherapy (HT) could help to avoid these limitations as irradiation of long fields is possible without field matching. This study aims to assess the dosimetric comparision of treatment plans between HT and Volumetric Modulated Arc therapy (VMAT) of CSI
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Medical Physics
- Journal Volume
- 42
- Journal Issue
- suppl.1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 145
- CODEN
- JMPHFE
Conference
- Title
- 17. Asia-Oceania Congress of Medical Physics; 38. annual conference of Association of Medical Physicists of India
- Acronym
- AOCMP-AMPICON 2017
- Dates
- 4-7 Nov 2017
- Place
- Jaipur (India)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- India
- Country of Input or Organization
- India
- INIS RN
- 49051759
- Subject category
- S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BRAIN; DOSE LIMITS; PERSONNEL DOSIMETRY; RADIATION DOSES; RADIOTHERAPY; SPINAL CORD
- Descriptors DEC
- BODY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DOSES; DOSIMETRY; MEDICINE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; ORGANS; RADIOLOGY; SAFETY STANDARDS; STANDARDS; THERAPY