Browsing Masters Theses by Subject "IMRT"

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Knowledge-Based IMRT Treatment Planning for Bilateral Head and Neck Cancer

Schmidt, Matthew Charles (2013)

Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) remains the standard of care for external beam radiation therapy for head and neck cancers. Planning for IMRT requires a trial-and-error approach that is completely dependent on ...
Knowledge-Based IMRT Treatment Planning for Prostate Cancer: Experience with 101 cases from Duke Clinic

Dick, Deon (2012)

Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) has become an effective tool for cancer treatment with radiation. However, even expert radiation planners still need to spend a substantial amount of time, approximately 4 hours, ...
The Need for Adaptive Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy Replanning in Head-and-Neck Patients with Anatomical Changes During Treatment

Rhee, Dong Joo (2013)

AbstractPurpose: The aim of this study is to quantify the effectiveness of adaptive radiation therapy (ART) when anatomical changes to the tumor and/or the organs are observed for head and neck patients during ...
Toward Clinically Intuitive Quality Assurance

Norris, Hannah J. (2012)

The need for clinically intuitive quality assurance procedures has been well-documented; current QA methods such as 2D gamma analysis have been shown (Nelms, Zhen et al. 2011) to be inadequate in predicting clinically ...
Treatment-Induced Dosimetric/Volumetric Changes During the Course of Radiotherapy for Lung Cancer

Chung, Yi Hsuan (2012)

Purpose: The goal of this study is to investigate the necessity of adaptive radiation therapy (ART) for lung cancer patients treated with intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) by quantifying the change in the ...