The liver is a critically important organ that has numerous functions including the production
of bile, metabolism of ingested nutrients, elimination of many waste products, glycogen …

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 …

Purpose Data guiding selection of nonsurgical treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
are lacking. We therefore compared outcomes between stereotactic body radiotherapy …

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 …

Inside the Sixth Edition of this now-classic reference, you will discover encyclopedic
coverage of topics ranging from basic science to sophisticated computer-based radiation …

Background Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is an emerging treatment option for liver
metastases in patients unsuitable for surgery. We investigated factors associated with …

Purpose: To describe the dose—volume tolerance for radiation-induced liver disease (RILD)
using the Lyman—Kutcher—Burman (LKB) normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) …

Purpose To report on the outcomes of a phase I study of stereotactic body radiotherapy
(SBRT) for treatment of liver metastases. Patients and Methods Patients with liver …

Imaging is central to radiation oncology practice, with advances in radiation oncology
occurring in parallel to advances in imaging. Targets to be irradiated and normal tissues to …

Radiation therapy has gone through a series of revolutions in the last few decades and it is
now possible to produce highly conformal radiation dose distribution by using techniques …