From IMRT to IGRT: Frontierland or neverland? Journal Article
| Authors: | Ling, C. C.; Yorke, E.; Fuks, Z. |
| Article Title: | From IMRT to IGRT: Frontierland or neverland? |
| Abstract: | The recent enthusiasm for real-time image guidance in radiotherapy (IGRT) is in part due to the commercial availability of advanced on-line imaging technologies. Perhaps more important than its potential to improve conventional radiotherapy, IGRT may lead to a paradigm shift in facilitating hypo-fractionated or single-dose treatment. However, there are uncertainty regarding features and approaches of competing IGRT systems and as to whether a sub-set of the features of an ideal IGRT system would suffice for specific disease sites and clinical applications. Clinical studies are necessary for the quantification of benefit needed for evidence-based medicine (Bentzen, SM. Radiation therapy: intensity modulated, image guided, biologically optimized and evidence based. Radiat Oncol 2005;77:227-230). © 2005 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| Keywords: | treatment outcome; review; neoplasms; computer assisted tomography; radiation; tomography, x-ray computed; imaging system; cost effectiveness analysis; radiotherapy, intensity-modulated; radiation dose fractionation; quantitative analysis; imaging, three-dimensional; radiotherapy planning, computer-assisted; radiotherapy, conformal; dose fractionation; image processing, computer-assisted; igrt; technology; online systems; radiotherapy, computer-assisted; computer aided design; technology, radiologic; cone-beam ct; systematic error; image-guidance; hypo-fractionation |
| Journal Title: | Radiotherapy and Oncology |
| Volume: | 78 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| ISSN: | 0167-8140 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Inc. |
| Date Published: | 2006-02-01 |
| Start Page: | 119 |
| End Page: | 122 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.radonc.2005.12.005 |
| PUBMED: | 16413622 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
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| Notes: | --- - "Cited By (since 1996): 51" - "Export Date: 4 June 2012" - "CODEN: RAOND" - "Source: Scopus" |
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