[PDF][PDF] Dosimetric comparison of FF and FFF beams in VMAT treatment plans of head and neck cancers.

SA Kumar, M MM, S CA, R KB, L Jose… - Onkologia i …, 2021 - researchgate.net
Background: Currently we are using flattened beams for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy
(VMAT) for head and neck treatments. The purpose of this study is to find whether there is …

A comparison of several modulated radiotherapy techniques for head and neck cancer and dosimetric validation of VMAT

F Stieler, D Wolff, H Schmid, G Welzel, F Wenz… - Radiotherapy and …, 2011 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) has the potential to shorten treatment
times for fluence modulated radiotherapy. We compared dose distributions of VMAT, step …

[PDF][PDF] Total body irradiation using VMAT (RapidArc): A planning study of a novel treatment delivery method

S Chakraborty, S Cheruliyil, R Bharathan… - Int J Cancer Ther …, 2015 - researchgate.net
Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility of using volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) using
RapidArc to deliver total body irradiation (TBI) treatment. Methods: VMAT planning was …

Assessment of different IMRT boost delivery methods on target coverage and normal-tissue sparing

N Dogan, S King, B Emami, N Mohideen… - International Journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Because of biologic, medical, and sometimes logistic reasons, patients may be
treated with 3D conformal therapy or intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for the …

Dosimetric comparison of hybrid volumetric-modulated arc therapy, volumetric-modulated arc therapy, and intensity-modulated radiation therapy for left-sided early …

JF Lin, DC Yeh, HL Yeh, CF Chang, JC Lin - Medical Dosimetry, 2015 - Elsevier
To compare the dosimetric performance of 3 different treatment techniques: hybrid
volumetric-modulated arc therapy (hybrid-VMAT), pure-VMAT, and fixed-field intensity …

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… - International Journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The use of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is
now widely advocated for the treatment of head-and-neck cancers, to increase the …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of jaw tracking in intensity-modulated and volumetric-modulated arc radiotherapy for head and neck cancers: a dosimetric study

KR Mani, S Upadhayay, KJM Das - Radiation oncology journal, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose To Study the dosimetric advantage of the Jaw tracking technique in intensity-
modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for Head and …

[PDF][PDF] A radiation oncology approach for using definitive radiotherapy with volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for skin field cancerisation (SFC)

GB Fogarty, DRH Christie, A Kaminski - Int J Radiol Radiat Ther, 2018 - researchgate.net
Patients with long histories of chronic ultraviolet radiation exposure can suffer from skin field
cancerisation (SFC). They can have poor oncological outcomes and quality of life (QoL) with …

Comparing radiation treatments using intensity-modulated beams, multiple arcs, and single arcs

G Tang, MA Earl, S Luan, C Wang… - International Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: A dosimetric comparison of multiple static-field intensity-modulated radiation
therapy (IMRT), multiarc intensity-modulated arc therapy (IMAT), and single-arc arc …

Exploratory study of the association of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) plan robustness with local failure in head and neck cancer

W Liu, SH Patel, DP Harrington, Y Hu… - Journal of applied …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This work is to show which is more relevant to cause local failures (LF s) due to patient setup
uncertainty between the planning target volume (PTV) underdosage and the potential target …