Background: Radiotherapy plays an important role in treatment for head and neck cancer
(HNC). However, radiotherapy also caused a lot of uncomfortable adverse events. The …

Head and neck cancer belongs to the most prevalent cancers, and are the sixth leading
cause of cancer worldwide. The majority of cases represent squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) …

Purpose: The purpose with this study was to compare multi-criteria optimization (MCO) for
volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) treatment plans in two different treatment planning …

Cancers arising from the hypopharynx are more commonly seen in developing countries
including India, compared to the western countries. Out of all head and neck cancers (HNC) …

Each patient treated with photon or proton radiotherapy requires a personalized treatment
plan. The creation of a treatment plan is however an iterative and time consuming process …

The clinical impact of range shifter air gap in intensity-modulated proton therapy of
oropharyngeal cancer was investigated. Including accurate air gap modeling in the plan …

Sensitivity and specificity of time resolved point dose measurements for patient specific quality
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Purpose: It is common for head and neck patients to be affected by time trend errors as a
result of weight loss during a course of radiation treatment. The objective of this planning …

Background: The most significant change associated with simultaneous integrated boost
Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (SIB-VMAT) in comparison with the sequential VMAT …

In this thesis, a novel capacitive detector allowing near real-time monitoring of the cranium
during stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is developed and evaluated. The variation in …