Image-Guided Radiotherapy for Effective Radiotherapy Delivery

• Главный автор: Nam Phong Nguyen (auth)
• Другие авторы: Ulf Lennart Karlsson (auth)
• Формат: Электронный ресурс Глава книги
• Язык: английский
• Опубликовано: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Серии: Frontiers Research Topics
• Предметы: Medicine; disease-specific survival; Image-guided radiotherapy; Comorbidity; Computerized axial tomography; Cancer
• Online-ссылка: 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...