The dosimetric impact from devices external to the patient is a complex combination of
increased skin dose, reduced tumor dose, and altered dose distribution. Although small …

Highly attenuating radiation treatment couches are no longer useful in the present era of
IMRT‐and IGRT‐utilizing radiotherapy. High tensile strength and low density carbon fiber …

Purpose To measure the effect of the treatment couch on dose distributions and to
investigate the ability of a modern planning system to accurately model these effects …

The impact of the treatment couch on a radiotherapy plan is rarely fully assessed during the
treatment planning process. Incorporating a couch model into the treatment planning system …

Purpose To verify the dose distribution and number of monitor units (MU) for dynamic
treatment techniques like volumetric modulated single arc radiation therapy-Rapid Arc-each …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To investigate the impact of a commercial IMRT/IGRT
carbon-fibre tabletop in radiotherapy planning optimization and clinical dose distribution …

Objective The dose perturbation effect of immobilization devices is often overlooked in
intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for gynecologic cancer. This retrospective …

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the dosimetric effect of carbon fiber
couches (CFCs) on delivered skin dose as well as to explore potential venues for its …

Immobilization devices serve several purposes in radiation oncology including improved
positional reproducibility and decreased patient movement. If immobilization device beam …

Background: In practice, the dose perturbation effect of head and neck immobilization
devices is often overlooked in intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for …