Intensity-modulated arc therapy: principles, technologies and clinical implementation

XY Cedric, G Tang - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Intensity-modulated arc therapy (IMAT) was proposed by Yu (1995 Phys. Med. Biol. 40 1435–
49) as an alternative to tomotherapy. Over more than a decade, much progress has been …

Multi-criteria optimization and decision-making in radiotherapy

S Breedveld, D Craft, R Van Haveren… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Radiotherapy (radiation therapy) is one of the main treatments for cancer. The aim is to
deliver a prescribed radiation dose to the tumor, while keeping the unavoidable dose to the …

Comparison of Elekta VMAT with helical tomotherapy and fixed field IMRT: plan quality, delivery efficiency and accuracy

M Rao, W Yang, F Chen, K Sheng, J Ye… - Medical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Helical tomotherapy (HT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) are arc‐
based approaches to IMRT delivery. The objective of this study is to compare VMAT to both …

Treatment planning for volumetric modulated arc therapy

JL Bedford - Medical physics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) is a specific type of intensity‐modulated
radiation therapy (IMRT) in which the gantry speed, multileaf collimator (MLC) leaf position …

Multicriteria VMAT optimization

D Craft, D McQuaid, J Wala, W Chen, E Salari… - Medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To make the planning of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) faster and to
explore the tradeoffs between planning objectives and delivery efficiency. Methods: A …

Optimization approaches to volumetric modulated arc therapy planning

J Unkelbach, T Bortfeld, D Craft, M Alber… - Medical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) has found widespread clinical application in
recent years. A large number of treatment planning studies have evaluated the potential for …

Volumetric arc intensity–modulated therapy for spine body radiotherapy: comparison with static intensity-modulated treatment

QJ Wu, S Yoo, JP Kirkpatrick, D Thongphiew… - International Journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: This clinical study evaluates the feasibility of using volumetric arc–modulated
treatment (VMAT) for spine stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) to achieve highly …

Arc-modulated radiation therapy (AMRT): a single-arc form of intensity-modulated arc therapy

C Wang, S Luan, G Tang, DZ Chen… - Physics in Medicine …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Arc-modulated radiation therapy (AMRT) is a novel rotational intensity-modulated radiation
therapy (IMRT) technique developed for a clinical linear accelerator that aims to deliver …

Deep learning-based inverse mapping for fluence map prediction

L Ma, M Chen, X Gu, W Lu - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We developed a fluence map prediction method that directly generates fluence maps for a
given desired dose distribution without optimization for volumetric modulated arc therapy …

Rotational IMRT techniques compared to fixed gantry IMRT and tomotherapy: multi-institutional planning study for head-and-neck cases

T Wiezorek, T Brachwitz, D Georg, E Blank, I Fotina… - Radiation …, 2011 - Springer
Background Recent developments enable to deliver rotational IMRT with standard C-arm
gantry based linear accelerators. This upcoming treatment technique was benchmarked in a …