A population-based comparative effectiveness study of radiation therapy techniques in stage III non-small cell lung cancer

JP Harris, JD Murphy, AL Hanlon, QT Le… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Purpose Concerns have been raised about the potential for worse treatment outcomes
because of dosimetric inaccuracies related to tumor motion and increased toxicity caused by …

Intensity-modulated radiotherapy in the treatment of lung cancer

A Bezjak, RB Rumble, G Rodrigues, A Hope, P Warde… - Clinical oncology, 2012 - Elsevier
Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is an advancement in radiotherapy that uses
intensity-modulated beams, which can provide multiple intensity levels for any single beam …

Intensity-modulated radiotherapy, not 3 dimensional conformal, is the preferred technique for treating locally advanced lung cancer

JY Chang - Seminars in radiation oncology, 2015 - Elsevier
When used to treat lung cancer, intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) can deliver higher
dose to the targets and spare more critical organs in lung cancer than can 3-dimensional …

Potential of adaptive radiotherapy to escalate the radiation dose in combined radiochemotherapy for locally advanced non–small cell lung cancer

M Guckenberger, J Wilbert, A Richter, K Baier… - International Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To evaluate the potential of adaptive radiotherapy (ART) for advanced-stage
non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in terms of lung sparing and dose escalation …

Treatment planning for lung cancer: Traditional homogeneous point–dose prescription compared with heterogeneity-corrected dose–volume prescription

SJ Frank, KM Forster, CW Stevens, JD Cox… - International Journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To quantify the differences in doses to target volumes and critical thoracic
structures calculated by traditional homogeneous point–dose prescription and heterogeneity …

Beam angle optimization and reduction for intensity-modulated radiation therapy of non–small-cell lung cancers

HH Liu, M Jauregui, X Zhang, X Wang, L Dong… - International Journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
Purpose: To optimize beam angles and reduce the number of beams used for intensity-
modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) of non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods and …

Adaptive radiotherapy for locally advanced non–small-cell lung cancer does not underdose the microscopic disease and has the potential to increase tumor control

M Guckenberger, A Richter, J Wilbert, M Flentje… - International Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To evaluate doses to the microscopic disease (MD) in adaptive radiotherapy
(ART) for locally advanced non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and to model tumor control …

Field size reduction enables iso-NTCP escalation of tumor control probability for irradiation of lung tumors

M Engelsman, P Remeijer, M van Herk… - International Journal of …, 2001 - Elsevier
Purpose: With the mean lung dose (MLD) as an estimator for the normal tissue complication
probability (NTCP) of the lung, we assessed whether the probability of tumor control of lung …

Underestimation of low-dose radiation in treatment planning of intensity-modulated radiotherapy

SY Jang, HH Liu, R Mohan - International Journal of Radiation Oncology …, 2008 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To investigate potential dose calculation errors in the low-dose regions and
identify causes of such errors for intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). METHODS AND …

Conformal radiotherapy of stage III non–small cell lung cancer: a class solution involving non–coplanar intensity-modulated beams

S Derycke, WRT De Gersem, BBR Van Duyse… - International Journal of …, 1998 - Elsevier
Purpose: We developed a semiautomatic class solution to irradiate centrally located Stage III
non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), involving a beam intensity modulation technique and …