MRI/CT is the future of radiotherapy treatment planning

Radiotherapy treatment planning

In radical radiotherapy treatment we aim to accurately deliver a lethal dose of radiation to tumour cells while sparing any surrounding normal tissues. Radiotherapy treatment planning is the process undertaken to determine the most appropriate way to deliver the radiation in order to meet the clinical prescription. Rapid advances in technology and computing, particularly in relation to imaging,...

Comparing the results of 3D treatment planning and practical dosimetry in craniospinal radiotherapy using Rando phantom

Background: Craniospinal radiotherapy faces technical challenges which are due to the sensitivity of the location in which the gross tumor is, and to organs at risk around planning target volume. Using modern treatment planning systems causes a reduction in the complexities of the treatment techniques. The most effective method to assess the dosimetric accuracy and the validity of the ...

PETCT in radiotherapy treatment planning

Treatment planning for the GSI radiotherapy

Throughout the year 2000 our standard treatment planning software TRiP98 [1, 2] which went into production last year [3] was used in combination with the Voxelplan environment for the planning of all 32 patients [4]. Specific improvements on the software side were the introduction of inhomogeneous dose prescriptions, extensions of the beam model and addition of auxiliary functions. Inhomogeneou...

Treatment Planning for the Carbon Ion Radiotherapy

In the three therapy beam times 2007 about 50 patients were planned and treated with our treatment planning software, TRiP98, and its development version, TRiP98BEAM. In the past, the standard method was to optimize the biological target dose distribution for the contributing partial fields singly. Due to the enormous effort for the computation of biological effects, only a simple, but still su...