Several recent developments in linear accelerator–based radiation therapy (RT) such as fast
multileaf collimators, accelerated intensity modulation paradigms like volumeric modulated …

In the era of conformal therapy and intensity-modulated therapy, there is an increased desire
to raise tumor dose to facilitate improved survival and decrease normal tissue dose to …

This document is the report of a task group of the AAPM and has been prepared primarily to
advise medical physicists involved in the external‐beam radiation therapy of patients with …

Purpose: Radiation therapy (RT) for left-sided breast cancer has been associated with
cardiac dysfunction. We herein assess the temporal nature and volume dependence of RT …

Purpose: To evaluate the heart and lung sparing effects of moderate deep inspiration breath
hold (mDIBH) achieved using an active breathing control (ABC) device, compared with free …

Radiation treatment to the left breast is associated with increased cardiac morbidity and
mortality. The deep inspiration breath‐hold technique (DIBH) can decrease radiation dose …

Optical surface imaging is a nonradiographic, noninvasive technology for continuous
localization of patients during radiation therapy. Surface-guided radiation therapy (SGRT) …

Image guidance in radiotherapy and extracranial radiosurgery offers the potential for precise
radiation dose delivery to a moving tumour. Recent work has demonstrated how to locate …

Heart-sparing radiotherapy techniques in breast cancer patients: a recommendation of the
breast cancer expert panel of the Germa Page 1 REVIEW ARTICLE https://doi.org/10.1007/s00066-019-01495-w …

Purpose: To investigate how respiration influences the motion of lung and pancreas tumors
and to relate the observations to treatment procedures intended to improve dose alignment …