Image-Guided Radiotherapy for Effective Radiotherapy Delivery

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Nam Phong Nguyen (auth)
• مؤلفون آخرون: Ulf Lennart Karlsson (auth)
• التنسيق: الكتروني فصل الكتاب
• اللغة: الإنجليزية
• منشور في: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• سلاسل: Frontiers Research Topics
• الموضوعات: Medicine; disease-specific survival; Image-guided radiotherapy; Comorbidity; Computerized axial tomography; Cancer
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) is a new radiotherapy technology that combines the rapid dose fall off associated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and daily tumor imaging allowing for high precision tumor dose delivery and effective sparing of surrounding normal organs. The new radiatio...