Intensity modulated radiation therapy: A review of current practice and future outlooks
| Autor: | Zahra, Irfan Ullah, Jalil ur Rehman, Gulfam Nasar, Muhammad Nauman Usmani, Zaheer Abbas Gilani, H.M. Noor ul Huda Khan Asghar, Nisar Ahmad, Malik Muhammad Akhtar, Muhammad Khalid |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Computer science medicine.medical_treatment Intensity-modulated radiation therapy Completed Staff Work 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging Radiation therapy 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Beam delivery Current practice 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine lcsh:QC770-798 lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity Medical physics Intensity modulated radiotherapy External beam radiotherapy Non uniform beam |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences, Vol 11, Iss 4, Pp 361-367 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 1687-8507 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jrras.2018.07.006 |
| Popis: | Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) is a modern type of external beam radiotherapy that conforms high radiation dose to the target with minimum dose to the organs at risk (OARs), making it an embellishment of every developed institution. The earlier publications didn't have much proofs of the clinical superiority of IMRT over other radiotherapy techniques. It was considered a complicated and expensive treatment technique but the advent of modern treatment and imaging modalities have made its rapid clinical implementation unquestionable. Now IMRT have grown up, it is not the technique in which non uniform beam intensities were generated just by metal compensators, now it has multileaf collimators (MLCs), rotational fan and cone beam delivery systems and robotic arm linear accelerators to cure the life threatening cancer diseases. IMRT with all its advances have some limitations including its high cost, increased staff work, increased time for its planning, and risks of marginal misses. Keywords: IMRT, Inverse planning, Treatment delivery, MLC |
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