Volumetric modulated arc therapy: a review of current literature and clinical use in practice

M Teoh, CH Clark, K Wood, S Whitaker… - The British journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) is a novel radiation technique, which can achieve
highly conformal dose distributions with improved target volume coverage and sparing of …

Persistent luminescence materials for deep photodynamic therapy

A Bessière, JO Durand, C Noûs - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
Persistent luminescence (PerL) materials continue emitting light long after their excitation
has stopped. Prepared in the form of nanoparticles they revealed their full potential as bio …

Nanoscale radiotherapy with hafnium oxide nanoparticles

L Maggiorella, G Barouch, C Devaux, A Pottier… - Future …, 2012 - Future Medicine
Aim: There is considerable interest in approaches that could improve the therapeutic
window of radiotherapy. In this study, hafnium oxide nanoparticles were designed that …

Effectiveness of stereotactic body radiotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein and/or inferior vena cava tumor thrombosis

M Xi, L Zhang, L Zhao, QQ Li, SP Guo, ZZ Feng… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background To report the feasibility, efficacy, and toxicity of stereotactic body radiotherapy
(SBRT) for the treatment of portal vein tumor thrombosis (PVTT) and/or inferior vena cava …

Implementing RapidArc into clinical routine: a comprehensive program from machine QA to TPS validation and patient QA

A Van Esch, D P. Huyskens, CF Behrens… - Medical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: With the increased commercial availability of intensity modulated arc therapy
(IMAT) comes the need for comprehensive QA programs, covering the different aspects of …

Volumetric modulated arc therapy of head-and-neck cancer on a fast-rotating O-ring linac: Plan quality and delivery time comparison with a C-arm linac

S Michiels, K Poels, W Crijns, L Delombaerde… - Radiotherapy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Linac improvements in gantry speed, leaf speed and dose rate
may increase the time-efficiency of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) delivery. The …

Proof-of-concept delivery of intensity modulated arc therapy on the Elekta Unity 1.5 T MR-linac

C Kontaxis, PL Woodhead, GH Bol… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work we present the first delivery of intensity modulated arc therapy on the Elekta
Unity 1.5 T MR-linac. The machine's current intensity modulated radiation therapy based …

RapidArc, SmartArc and TomoHD compared with classical step and shoot and sliding window intensity modulated radiotherapy in an oropharyngeal cancer treatment …

D Van Gestel, C van Vliet-Vroegindeweij… - Radiation …, 2013 - Springer
Backround Radiotherapy techniques have evolved rapidly over the last decade with the
introduction of Intensity Modulated RadioTherapy (IMRT) in different forms. It is not clear …

An introduction to the intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) techniques, tomotherapy, and VMAT

C Elith, SE Dempsey, N Findlay… - Journal of Medical …, 2011 - Elsevier
Résumé Sous l'impulsion principale des avancées technologiques, la radiothérapie a
progressé à un point tel que la radiothérapie conformale 3D (3DCRT) et la radiothérapie à …

Local recurrences after curative IMRT for HNSCC: Effect of different GTV to high-dose CTV margins

R Zukauskaite, CR Hansen, C Grau, E Samsøe… - Radiotherapy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction The aim was to analyze position of CT-verified local recurrences (LR) and local
control (LC) among three centers that used different GTV to CTV1 margins. Materials and …