One of the most important aims of each treatment planning system is the ability of delivering a target conformal dose distribution. Developed and successful used within the heavy ion therapy pilot project, the TReatment plannIng for Particles ( TRiP )[1] is characterised by the capability of delivering exact results in relatively short time, making it possible to rapidly verify and, if necessar...

Radiation therapy is a cornerstone in the therapeutic management of craniopharyngioma. The close proximity to neighboring eloquent structures pose a particular challenge to radiation therapy. Modern treatment technologies including fractionated 3-D conformal radiotherapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy, and recently proton therapy are able to precisely cover the target while preserving s...

PURPOSE To delineate with computed tomography (CT) the anatomic regions containing the supraclavicular (SCV) and infraclavicular (IFV) nodal groups, to define the course of the brachial plexus, to estimate the actual radiation dose received by these regions in a series of patients treated in the traditional manner, and to compare these doses to those received with an optimized dosimetric techni...

Radiation therapy (RT) as part of multidisciplinary oncologic care has been marked by profound advancements over the past decades. As part of multimodality therapy for esophageal cancer (EC), a prime goal of RT is to minimize not only treatment toxicities, but also postoperative complications and hospitalizations. Herein, discussion commences with the historical approaches to treating EC, inclu...

Hadron therapy hospital centers have become wide spread in the world during the last decade. These centers were created mainly on basis of the cycling accelerators such as cyclotrons and synchrotrons. Now there are several proposals of the proton centers on the basis of linear accelerators. In this report we discuss features, advantages and disadvantages of hadron therapy centers on the basis o...

here, the concept of electric capacity on finsler spaces is introduced and the fundamentalconformal invariant property is proved, i.e. the capacity of a compact set on a connected non-compact finslermanifold is conformal invariant. this work enables mathematicians and theoretical physicists to become morefamiliar with the global finsler geometry and one of its new applications.

The present work investigated the potential of compensator-based intensity-modulated radiation therapy (CB-IMRT) as an alternative to multileaf collimator (MLC)-based intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) to treat malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) post extrapleural pneumonectomy. Treatment plans for 4 right-sided and 1 left-sided MPM post-surgery cases were generated using a commercia...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the therapeutic results of small hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) treated with hyperfractionated three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3-D conformal RT). This retrospective study was to review 39 small HCC (tumor ≤ 5 cm in size) patients who had been treated with hyperfractionated 3-D conformal RT from October 1999 to December 2000. The mean age was 59...