Dynamic Jaws and Dynamic Couch in Helical Tomotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1266-1273

  Sterzing, Florian ^a   Uhl, Matthias ^a   Hauswald, Henrik ^a   Schubert, Kai ^a   Sroka Perez, Gabriele ^a   Chen, Yu ^b   Lu, Weiguo ^b   Mackie, Rock ^b   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Herfarth, Klaus ^a   Oliveira, Gustavo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic couch; Dynamic jaws; Helical tomotherapy; Longitudinal dose profile; Nasopharyngeal cancer

Indexed keywords

BRAIN STEM; CONFORMAL AVOIDANCE; DELIVERY MODES; DELIVERY TIME; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE PROFILE; DYNAMIC TECHNIQUES; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; INTEGRAL DOSE; LYMPH NODE; MULTIFOCAL; NASOPHARYNGEAL CANCER; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; ORGANS AT RISKS; PAROTID GLANDS; PLAN QUALITY; RADIATION DELIVERY; SIMULTANEOUS INTEGRATED BOOSTS; SKULL BASE; SPINAL CORDS; TARGET COVERAGE; TOMOTHERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; HUMAN; JAW MOVEMENT; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SKULL BASE; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRAIN STEM; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PAROTID GLAND; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SOFTWARE; SPINAL CORD; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC;

EID: 77449093216     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.07.1686     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Mackie T.R., Balog J., Ruchala K., et al. Tomotherapy. Semin Radiat Oncol 9 (1999) 108-117
2. Welsh J.S., Patel R.R., Ritter M.A., et al. Helical tomotherapy: An innovative technology and approach to radiation therapy. Technol Cancer Res Treat 1 (2002) 311-316
3. Jeraj R., Mackie T.R., Balog J., et al. Radiation characteristics of helical tomotherapy. Med Phys 31 (2004) 396-404
4. Sterzing F., Schubert K., Sroka-Perez G., et al. Helical tomotherapy: Experiences of the first 150 patients in Heidelberg. Strahlenther Onkol 184 (2008) 8-14
5. Rochet N., Sterzing F., Jensen A., et al. Helical tomotherapy as a new treatment technique for whole abdominal irradiation. Strahlenther Onkol 184 (2008) 145-149
6. Sterzing F., Sroka-Perez G., Schubert K., et al. Evaluating target coverage and normal tissue sparing in the adjuvant radiotherapy of malignant pleural mesothelioma: Helical tomotherapy compared with step-and-shoot IMRT. Radiother Oncol 86 (2008) 251-257
7. Penagaricano J.A., Papanikolaou N., Yan Y., et al. Feasibility of cranio-spinal axis radiation with the Hi-Art tomotherapy system. Radiother Oncol 76 (2005) 72-78
8. Wong J.Y., Liu A., Schultheiss T., et al. Targeted total marrow irradiation using three-dimensional image-guided tomographic intensity-modulated radiation therapy: An alternative to standard total body irradiation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 12 (2006) 306-315
9. Sterzing F., Welzel T., Sroka-Perez G., et al. Reirradiation of multiple brain metastases with helical tomotherapy: A multifocal simultaneous integrated boost for eight or more lesions. Strahlenther Onkol 185 (2009) 89-93
10. Sheng K., Molloy J.A., and Read P.W. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) dosimetry of the head and neck: A comparison of treatment plans using linear accelerator-based IMRT and helical tomotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 65 (2006) 917-923
11. Widesott L., Pierelli A., Fiorino C., et al. Intensity-modulated proton therapy versus helical tomotherapy in nasopharynx cancer: Planning comparison and NTCP evaluation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 72 (2008) 589-596
12. Lee N., Xia P., Fischbein N.J., et al. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy for head-and-neck cancer: The UCSF experience focusing on target volume delineation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 57 (2003) 49-60
13. Gregoire V., De Neve W., Eisbruch A., et al. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy for head and neck carcinoma. Oncologist 12 (2007) 555-564
14. Fiorino C., Dell'Oca I., Pierelli A., et al. Simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) for nasopharynx cancer with helical tomotherapy. A planning study. Strahlenther Onkol 183 (2007) 497-505
15. Kissick M.W., Flynn R.T., Westerly D.C., et al. On the making of sharp longitudinal dose profiles with helical tomotherapy. Phys Med Biol 52 (2007) 6497-6510
16. Mackie T.R., Holmes T., Swerdloff S., et al. Tomotherapy: a new concept for the delivery of dynamic conformal radiotherapy. Med Phys 20 (1993) 1709-1719
17. Yang J.N., Mackie T.R., Reckwerdt P., et al. An investigation of tomotherapy beam delivery. Med Phys 24 (1997) 425-436
18. Eisbruch A., Foote R.L., O'Sullivan B., et al. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy for head and neck cancer: emphasis on the selection and delineation of the targets. Semin Radiat Oncol 12 (2002) 238-249
19. Gregoire V., Eisbruch A., Hamoir M., et al. Proposal for the delineation of the nodal CTV in the node-positive and the post-operative neck. Radiother Oncol 79 (2006) 15-20
20. Cannon D.M., and Lee N.Y. Recurrence in region of spared parotid gland after definitive intensity-modulated radiotherapy for head and neck cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys (2007)
21. Kissick M.W., Fenwick J., James J.A., et al. The helical tomotherapy thread effect. Med Phys 32 (2005) 1414-1423
22. Pirzkall A., Carol M., Lohr F., et al. Comparison of intensity-modulated radiotherapy with conventional conformal radiotherapy for complex-shaped tumors. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 48 (2000) 1371-1380
23. Wolden S.L., Chen W.C., Pfister D.G., et al. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for nasopharynx cancer: Update of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering experience. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 64 (2006) 57-62
24. Hall E.J., and Wuu C.S. Radiation-induced second cancers: The impact of 3D-CRT and IMRT. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 56 (2003) 83-88
25. Kry S.F., Salehpour M., Followill D.S., et al. The calculated risk of fatal secondary malignancies from intensity-modulated radiation therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 62 (2005) 1195-1203
26. Bortfeld T., and Webb S. Single-arc IMRT?. Phys Med Biol 54 (2009) N9-N20