Multi-institutional comparison of volumetric modulated arc therapy vs. intensity-modulated radiation therapy for head-and-neck cancer: a planning study

A Holt, D Van Gestel, MP Arends, EW Korevaar… - … oncology, 2013 - Springer
… This study aims at a treatment planner-independent comparison of radiotherapy treatment
planning of IMRT and VMAT for head-and-neck cancer performed by several institutes and …

Comparative study of four advanced 3d-conformal radiation therapy treatment planning techniques for head and neck cancer

MY Herrassi, F Bentayeb… - Journal of medical physics, 2013 - journals.lww.com
… -CRT techniques in the treatment of advanced HN cancer. The four planning techniques for
HN cancer treatments we included in this comparison study make use of photon beams only …

Evaluation of a knowledge-based planning solution for head and neck cancer

JP Tol, AR Delaney, M Dahele, BJ Slotman… - … of Radiation Oncology …, 2015 - Elsevier
… A comparison between the knowledge-based plans and their respective CPs was made on
the basis of (1) the homogeneity index (HI) calculated for PTV B /PTV E (HI B /HI E ) using [HI …

Volumetric intensity-modulated arc therapy vs. conventional IMRT in head-and-neck cancer: a comparative planning and dosimetric study

WFAR Verbakel, JP Cuijpers, D Hoffmans… - … of Radiation Oncology …, 2009 - Elsevier
… on treatment planning or dosimetric validation and comparison of RA … Because IMRT plans
for head-and-neck cancer are … tumors for a comparative study of RapidArc plans with IMRT. …

The potential of intensity-modulated proton radiotherapy to reduce swallowing dysfunction in the treatment of head and neck cancer: A planning comparative study

HP Van Der Laan, TA Van De Water… - Acta …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
planning to reduce the dose to the most relevant SWOARs [Citation4,Citation5,Citation8]. We
recently conducted an in silico planning comparative … any other current planning objectives […

Three-dimensional conformal vs. intensity-modulated radiotherapy in head-and-neck cancer patients: comparative analysis of dosimetric and technical parameters

L Cozzi, A Fogliata, A Bolsi, G Nicolini… - … of Radiation Oncology …, 2004 - Elsevier
… now widely advocated for the treatment of head-and-neck cancers, to increase the therapeutic
ratio … data of a comparison at plan level between treated IMRT and reference 3DCRT dose …

Multicriteria optimization enables less experienced planners to efficiently produce high quality treatment plans in head and neck cancer radiotherapy

RGJ Kierkels, R Visser, HP Bijl, JA Langendijk… - … oncology, 2015 - Springer
comparative planning study. Per patient, novice planners with less experience in dosimetry
planning created an IMRT plan … Furthermore, a conventionally planned clinical IMRT plan

An in silico comparison between margin-based and probabilistic target-planning approaches in head and neck cancer patients

D Fontanarosa, HP van der Laan, M Witte… - … and Oncology, 2013 - Elsevier
… dose limits set on the original plans and by the ROCOCO … comparison between the ROIs
with margin expansion in the original plans with the ROIs with probabilistic shifts in the PP plans

Intensity modulated arc therapy in bilaterally irradiated head and neck cancer: a comparative and prospective multicenter planning study

SS Vernat, D Ali, C Messina, P Pommier… - Cancer …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Comparing the plans obtained with RA versus HT in our study, both techniques provided
very similar and highly conformal plans … In a planning study where the authors compared in 8 …

[HTML][HTML] Protons in head-and-neck cancer: bridging the gap of evidence

BLT Ramaekers, JPC Grutters… - … of Radiation Oncology …, 2013 - Elsevier
… Therefore, we aimed to combine NTCP models and comparative planning data in a
model-based economic evaluation to explore the (cost-)effectiveness of swallowing-sparing IMPT (…