… regarding the use of IMRT for head and neck cancer. Rather than offering another set of …
head and neck cancer. Two issues that we will address are the controversies in target definition …

PURPOSE: In order to explore the potential of helical Tomotherapy in the treatment of head
and neck cancers (HNC), a planning study comparing our routinely delivered IMRT …

… irradiation for head and neck cancer. The major aim is sparing … of the conformal plans
regarding target coverage and dose … and neck cancer requiring comprehensive, bilateral neck …

… For GTV and CTV, we evaluated the volume receiving less than 95% of the prescribed dose
as quantitative endpoints to reflect the tumor target coverage. The maximum dose, minimum …

… 98% of the EAGD to the clinical target volume and significantly decreased the mean dose of
… Minimax robust optimization led to improved target coverage and dose reduction in organs …

… and spatial changes of the target volumes and organs-at-risk … [3], and target structures may
develop dose inhomogeneities … dose inhomogeneity and inadequate target coverage. In this …

… occurring in target volumes and salivary glands is also described. Ten H&N cancer patients
… of the IMRT plan if PTV or OAR coverage was unacceptable. Comparisons of PTV and …

… terms of target coverage and dose to OARs, were used. Having achieved these objectives,
including approval of the dose plans by an oncologist specialized in head and neck cancer (…

… We previously showed that the target coverage of the primary tumor was adequately maintained
and nodal coverage was improved compared with conventional beam arrangements in …

… target coverage and parotid sparing are two of the major concerns in conformal planning of
head and neck cancer … (the structure weight and target priority) on dose distributions in the …