Background and purpose: Despite the given advances in neuro-oncology most patients with
high grade malignant glioma ultimately fail locally or locoregionally. In parallel with …

Task Group 101 of the AAPM has prepared this report for medical physicists, clinicians, and
therapists in order to outline the best practice guidelines for the external‐beam radiation …

The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) is a nonprofit professional
society whose primary purposes are to advance the science, education, and professional …

Purpose To characterize the stacked and staggered dual‐layer multileaf collimator (MLC) on
the Halcyon TM system. Methods The novel MLC assembly was reviewed and compared to …

The ExacTrac X-Ray 6D image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) system will be described and its
performance evaluated. The system is mainly an integration of 2 subsystems:(1) an infrared …

Radiotherapy is an integral treatment for patients with metastatic cancer, although it is
usually reserved for palliation of pain, dyspnoea, oedema, bleeding and neurological …

Purpose To determine the radiographic and clinical efficacy of stereotactic single dose
radiosurgery (SRS) and fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (FSRT) as salvage therapy for …

Purpose To propose single-isocenter dynamic conformal arcs (SIDCA), a novel technique
for radiosurgery of multiple brain metastases, and to compare SIDCA with volumetric …

Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) has widened the horizons of radiation therapy due
to its ability to conform radiation dose distributions to complex tumor target volumes while …

Purpose: To date, most intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) delivery has occurred
using linear accelerators (linacs), although helical tomotherapy has become commercially …