Advances in radiation therapy dosimetry

Advances in radiation therapy.

the discovery of x-rays by Roentgen and radium by the Curies, the first patient was treated with therapeutic x-rays. During the first few decades of the 20th century, the use of radiation increased significantly. The earliest uses of therapeutic radiation often involved treating gynecologic malignancies. Over the next one hundred years, radiation therapy became one of the integral treatment app...

Advanced Semiconductor dosimetry in radiation therapy

Modern radiation therapy is very conformal, resulting in a complexity of delivery that leads to many small radiation fields with steep dose gradients, increasing error probability. Quality assurance in delivery of such radiation fields is paramount and requires real time and high spatial resolution dosimetry. Semiconductor radiation detectors due to their small size, ability to operate in passi...

Advances in dosimetry and biological predictors of radiation-induced esophagitis

OBJECTIVE To summarize the research progress about the dosimetry and biological predictors of radiation-induced esophagitis. METHODS We performed a systematic literature review addressing radiation esophagitis in the treatment of lung cancer published between January 2009 and May 2015 in the PubMed full-text database index systems. RESULTS Twenty-eight eligible documents were included in th...

Recent advances in radiation therapy.

Recent advances have improved the effectiveness, decreased the complications, and expanded the implications of radiation therapy. These advances include three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy, intensity-modulated radiation therapy, stereotactic radiotherapy, brachytherapy, and radioimmunotherapy. Each of these modalities has improved radiation targeting, thereby limiting radiation exposu...

Advances in Modern Radiation Therapy