Advances in intensity-modulated radiotherapy delivery.

Journal article

Fixed-field intensity-modulated treatments, delivered by conventional linac-plus-multileaf systems, have rapidly become the most common form of IMRT. Several innovative alternative IMRT options are also now available, including tomotherapy, CyberKnife and jaws-only linacs. These innovative approaches have divergent rationales. Jaws-only IMRT is being developed because it allows treatments to be delivered using conventional linacs without expensive multileaf collimators and not because it impr...

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Authors: Fenwick, J; Riley, S; Scott, A

• Journal: Cancer treatment and research
• Volume: 139
• Pages: 193-214
• Publication date: 2008-01-01
• ISSN: 0927-3042
• Language: English
• Keywords: Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated; Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted; Humans; Radiotherapy, Computer-Assisted; Neoplasms