Background. Treatment planning for head and neck (H&N) cancer is complex due to the
number of organs at risk (OAR) located near the planning treatment volume (PTV). Distant …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To investigate the feasibility and the advantages of using
Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) for the treatment of head-and-neck cancer …

BACKGROUND: Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) beams traverse nontarget
normal structures not irradiated during three-dimensional conformal RT (3D-CRT) for head …

Aim: The objective of this study has been to identify monitor unit (MU) and treatment time
variations, volume coverage dissimilarity among 3D conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT) …

Aims and background We designed a comparative planning study aimed at quantifying the
advantages of intensity-modu-lated radiotherapy (IMRT) over the conventional 3-field …

Background: About 74% of head and neck cancer (HNC) patients need to undergo either
definitive or postoperative radiation therapy because of aggressive nature of disease. The …

We assessed the effect of geometric uncertainties on target coverage and on dose to the
organs at risk (OARS) during intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for head-and-neck …

PURPOSE: To investigate the effect of random setup uncertainties on the highly conformal
dose distributions produced by intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for clinical head …

Purpose To quantify the radiobiological advantages obtained by an Improved Forward
Planning technique (IFP) and two IMRT techniques using different fractionation schemes for …

At Ghent University Hospital, IMRT for head and neck cancer is routinely performed. The
desired dose distribution is defined upfront as a range of acceptable doses assigned to each …