Treatment planning for volumetric modulated arc therapy

JL Bedford - Medical physics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… Intensity-modulated arc therapy (IMAT) as proposed by Yu 1 has been used for several
years to treat patients in a short treatment time using high-quality dose distributions. This …

Development and evaluation of an efficient approach to volumetric arc therapy planning

K Bzdusek, H Friberger, K Eriksson… - Medical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… an efficient algorithm for generating dynamic arc plans that meets the clinical dosimetric …
components of plan optimization and arc sequencing are introduced. Ten plans for head …

Clinical implementation of intensity-modulated arc therapy

XY Cedric, XA Li, L Ma, D Chen, S Naqvi… - International Journal of …, 2002 - Elsevier
… To verify the clinical value of such a simplified process, we compared the treatment plans
using two to five forward planned arcs with the plans generated by conventional techniques …

[HTML][HTML] Planning analysis for locally advanced lung cancer: dosimetric and efficiency comparisons between intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), single-arc …

X Jiang, T Li, Y Liu, L Zhou, Y Xu, X Zhou, Y Gong - Radiation Oncology, 2011 - Springer
plans appling a partial arcplanning analysis for the locally advanced lung cancers in these
two fields: comparing the dosimetric parameters derived from IMRT and SA/PA-VMAT plans

Impact of plan parameters on the dosimetric accuracy of volumetric modulated arc therapy

L Masi, R Doro, V Favuzza, S Cipressi, L Livi - Medical physics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
plan parameters on volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) dosimetric accuracy, together
with the possibility of scoring plan … it to a VMAT plan, considering the control points of the arc

Treatment planning and dosimetric comparison study on two different volumetric modulated arc therapy delivery techniques

SAS Kumar, R Holla, P Sukumar… - Reports of practical …, 2013 - journals.viamedica.pl
… The aim of the present study is to compare and evaluate the plan quality, delivery efficiencies
and performance of two different volumetric modulated arc therapy delivery techniques for …

Intensity-modulated arc therapy simplified

E Wong, JZ Chen, J Greenland - International Journal of Radiation …, 2002 - Elsevier
… a treatment planning strategy for intensity-modulated radiation therapy using … arc therapy
(IMAT). Methods and Materials: The planning strategy is an extension of the photon bar arc and …

Predicting deliverability of volumetric‐modulated arc therapy (VMAT) plans using aperture complexity analysis

KC Younge, D Roberts, LA Janes… - Journal of applied …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… -modulated arc therapy (VMAT) plans to predict plan delivery accuracy. We developed a
complexity analysis tool as a plug-in script to Varian's Eclipse treatment planning system. This …

Planning strategies in volumetric modulated arc therapy for breast

G Nicolini, A Fogliata, A Clivio, E Vanetti… - Medical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… Fixing MU, these two plans were then … of this planning strategy on dose distributions when
either the OO or the EO strategies were adopted. For all the combinations, a DVH analysis of …

Optimization approaches to volumetric modulated arc therapy planning

J Unkelbach, T Bortfeld, D Craft, M Alber… - Medical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Arc therapy refers to radiotherapy treatments in which the … Using conventional Linacs,
conformal arc therapy has long been a … To extend arc therapy to more complex treatment sites that …