World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/1 Radiation Oncology

Front Matter....Pages I-XXIX
Development of New Radioactive Seeds Tm-170 for Brachytherapy....Pages 1-4
Implications of Histogram Analysis in Radiation Therapy (HART) Software....Pages 5-8
Evaluation of dosimetric characteristics of a grid block fabricated for Mega-voltage grid therapy purposes....Pages 9-12
Monte Carlo Investigation of Stereotactic Radiosurgery of Spinal Metastases....Pages 13-16
Impact of Kilo-Voltage Cone Beam Computed Tomography on Image-Guided Radiotherapy of Prostate Cancer....Pages 17-20
Cell Deformation by Dielectrophoretic Fields....Pages 21-24
Particle-beam radiation therapy for the tumor of pharyngeal region....Pages 25-28
A New Synchrotron Radiotherapy Technique with Future Clinical Potential: Minibeams Radiation Therapy....Pages 29-32
Analysis of combined HDR Brachytherapy and external beam radiotherapy in the treatment of carcinoma of cervix....Pages 33-36
Motion detection system with three USB cameras and an active search algorithm for stereotactic radiosurgery....Pages 37-40
An Investigation of the concomitant doses from Cone Beam CT and CT simulation in Radiotherapy....Pages 41-44
Treatment Planning for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT)....Pages 45-48
The 21st Birthday Party for intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT); 21 years from 1988-2009; From concept to practical reality....Pages 49-52
A Dedicated Irradiation Facility for Radiotherapy Dosimetry....Pages 53-55
A beam model applicable to small fields: development and validation....Pages 56-59
MR based treatment workflow for external radiotherapy of prostate cancer....Pages 60-63
Computational Simulation of Tumour Hypoxia as applied to Radiation Therapy Applications....Pages 64-66
Investigation of the Recovery Behaviour as Depending on Parotid Gland Irradiation Dose....Pages 67-69
Quality Assurance Program for Radiosurgery at Clinicas Hospital: Results of Implementation....Pages 70-71
Application of MRI normoxic polymer gel dosimetry for the evaluation of radiation dose distribution in external beam radiotherapy....Pages 72-75
On the Risks of a Constant RBE for Proton Treatment Planning....Pages 76-79
Comparison of Dose Distribution in Brain Tumor Conformal Radiotherapy Using CT and CBCT....Pages 80-80
Effect of the Same Plan on Doses to Patients during Radiotherapy with Nasopharyngeal Carinoma....Pages 81-81
Optimization of Dose Distribution with Multi-leaf Collimator Using Field-in-Field Technique for Radiotherapy of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma....Pages 82-84
On the performance of monitor chambers to measure the output of medical linear accelerators for high-precision dosimetric investigations....Pages 85-88
Calorimetric Determination of Absorbed Dose to Water for an 192 Ir HDR Brachytherapy Source in Near-Field Geometry....Pages 89-92
The first national IMRT dosimetry inter comparison in Switzerland using a thorax phantom with inhomogeneities....Pages 93-96
Calibration of 125 I brachytherapy sources in terms of reference air kerma rate....Pages 97-100
A Mathematical Aid Decision Tool for RT Planning....Pages 101-104
Accuracy of GafChromic EBT Film as Dose Meter in Radiotherapy QA....Pages 105-108
Low-Dose Cone-Beam CT Imaging for Radiotherapy....Pages 109-112
The realization and application on image pasting for Cone-beam Computed Tomography....Pages 113-113
In vivo dosimetry using MOSFET and TLD for Tomotherapy....Pages 114-116
Dose audit using a glass dosimeter for Radiation Therapy Facilities in East-Asian Countries....Pages 117-118
Editing range compensator for sparing normal tissue in treatment planning of carbon-ion radiotherapy....Pages 119-121
A new device for the measurement of the absorbed dose to water for low energy x-ray sources used in brachytherapy....Pages 122-125
Comparison of PET Concepts for Dose Delivery Monitoring of Particle Therapy....Pages 126-129
Image-guided stereotactic body radiation therapy using a low-Z target imaging beam line and a high dose rate unflattened beam....Pages 130-132
Conformity of brain lesions treated with radiosurgery and fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy....Pages 133-136
Comparing pencil-beam generated and Monte Carlo generated dose-to-water and dose-to-tissue distributions for proton therapy patients....Pages 137-140
In Vivo Evaluation of Photofrin II Radiosentisitivity for the Treatment of Adenocarcinoma Tumors in Balb-C Mice using Brachytherapy....Pages 141-143
Extend Distance Treatment for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy of Lung Cancer....Pages 144-147
Monte Carlo dosimetry with PENELOPE code of the VariSource VS2000 192 Ir high dose rate brachytherapy source....Pages 148-151
Energy Dependence Investigations of GafChromic EBT Films for Pretreatment Dosimetric Verification of IMRT Plans....Pages 152-154
Design and fabrication of the control part of a prototype multileaf collimator system....Pages 155-157
Quantitative Evaluation of Gating Radiotherapy System and Dynamic Tumor Tracking Radiotherapy System Developed at KIRAMS....Pages 158-161
Dosimetrical Aspect of CT Simulation Role in Radiation Therapy Planning....Pages 162-166
Implantable in vivo Dosimetric Probe Based on GaN Radioluminescence....Pages 167-171
Pre-clinical experiments in the deep-seated tumor heavy-ion therapy terminal at HIRFL-CSR....Pages 172-174
Second source model of collimator scatter and spectra of proton beams....Pages 175-178
Determination of nuclear cross sections of proton beams by the collective model and extended nuclear-shell theory....Pages 179-182
4D Monte Carlo Dose Calculations for Particle Therapy Combined with the Spring Network Model of Lung Motion....Pages 183-186
Prognostic Analysis of Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy of Regional Lymph Node Metastasis of the Surgical Esophageal Carcinoma Patients After Resection....Pages 187-187
Quality control of brachytherapy source using MCNP5 calculation and radiochromic films measurement....Pages 188-191
A Monte Carlo Study of the Particle Angular Distributions from the Electron Applicators of a Medical Linear Accelerator....Pages 192-195
Four-Dimensional Computerized Tomography (4D-CT) Reconstruction Without an External Breath Surrogate....Pages 196-199
Usefulness of GafChromic EBT film for dosimetry beyond 8.0 Gy....Pages 200-203
Influence of the CT slice thickness on the dose calculation for stereotactic treatment planing....Pages 204-206
“F-MRI: a method to assess therapy-induced cognitive impairment?”....Pages 207-209
Revaluation for problem of clinical particle therapy in cell biological effects of proton, carbon-ion and X-ray at Hyogo Ion Beam Medical Center....Pages 210-212
Fast and Accurate Proton Computed Tomography Image Reconstruction for Applications in Proton Therapy....Pages 213-216
Patient setup using a 3D laser surface scanning system....Pages 217-220
Therapy Optimization Based on Non-linear Uptake of PET Tracers versus “Linear Dose Painting”....Pages 221-224
Ant colony algorithm implementation in commissioning radiosurgery photon beams for Monte Carlo treatment planning....Pages 225-228
Respiratory Training and Guiding System using Head Mount Display Device to improve the regularity of breathing....Pages 229-231
The use of aSi EPID for in vivo dosimetry in photon beams: clinical experience....Pages 232-235
Response of Lithium Formate EPR Dosimeters at Photon Energies Relevant to Brachytherapy....Pages 236-239
Development of IMRT Treatment Planning System....Pages 240-243
An Investigation on the Internal Wedge Factor Estimation for an Elekta Linac using Monte Carlo Simulation....Pages 244-247
Three Dimensional Gamma-Index Analysis and Considerations of the Reference Level Definition for Dosimetric IMRT Plan Verification with 2D Ionisation Chamber Arrays....Pages 248-249
Parameterisation of Small Photon Fields in Off-Axis Regions for the SIEMENS 160 MLC....Pages 250-251
Suitability of the MVCT of TomoTherapy and Siemens Oncor for Treatment Planning....Pages 252-255
Measurement of Absorbed Dose to Water of a Gamma Knife Type C....Pages 256-258
On line neutron dose evaluation in patients under radiotherapy....Pages 259-261
Lorentz function convolution kernel of narrow photon beam profiles in homogeneous and inhomogeneous media....Pages 262-265
FIRST ASSESSMENT OF A NOVEL IGRT DEVICE FOR STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY....Pages 266-269
Heavy Ion Radiotherapy for Shallow-Seated Tumors at IMP....Pages 270-272
Density response characteristics of GafChromic EBT dosimetry film using ultraviolet light exposure....Pages 273-276
Fiducial-free spinal radiosurgery: Patient motion and targeting accuracy in 227 single fraction treatments with the Cyberknife....Pages 277-280
Electron arc planning on the commercial radiation treatment planning system....Pages 281-282
Influence of Modulation Restriction in Inverse Optimization with HIPO of Prostate Implants on Plan Quality: Analysis Using Dosimetric and Radiobiological Indices....Pages 283-286
Improving the performance of direct Monte-Carlo optimization for large tumor volumes....Pages 287-290
Finite Element-Based Biomechanical Modeling of the Bladder for Image Guided Radiotherapy....Pages 291-294
Verification of the accuracy in patient alignment using a laser-optical 3D-surface imaging system....Pages 295-298
 LDR and HDR intracavitory brachytherapy of cancer cervix uterus- rectal doses and ERD comparison ....Pages 299-302
Evaluation on Lung Cancer Patients’ Four-dimensional Treatment Plans Utilizing Biologically Effective Uniform Dose....Pages 303-306
Brachytherapy seed localization via iterative forward projection matching (IFPM) algorithm using intraoperative cone-beam-CT sinogram projections....Pages 307-310
Using Correlated Sampson to Accelerate CT-Based Monte Carlo Dose Calculations for Brachytherapy Treatment Planning....Pages 311-314
Investigation of a stereoscopic camera system for gated radiotherapy....Pages 315-317
Extracting breathing traces from any cone-beam image-set....Pages 318-321
A linear implementation of dose-volume constraints for multi-criteria optimization....Pages 322-325
Monte Carlo Dose Calculation for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning: Dose to Water or Dose to Medium?....Pages 326-329
Comparison of Contra lateral Breast & Chest wall doses during Radiotherapy of Ca-Breast (with mastectomy) using Co-60 machine and 6 MV LINAC.....Pages 330-333
The integration of the dose-guided radiation therapy process on a clinical workstation....Pages 334-337
First experience with patient oriented Rapid Arc treatment plan verification....Pages 338-340
EGSnrc Monte Carlo-aided dosimetric studies of the 192 Ir microSelectron v2 HDR brachytherapy source....Pages 341-344
Motion management in scanned particle therapy: beam gating & tracking....Pages 345-348
Quality assurance and application of a 4D in vivo dosimetry system using a deformable lung phantom....Pages 349-351
Dosimetric advantages of Stereotactic IMRT of brain lesions delivered with a micro-multileaf collimator....Pages 352-355
In vivo measurements of the dose delivered by kilovoltage cone-beam CT during prostate radiation therapy....Pages 356-357
Initial application of a geometric QA tool for integrated MV and kV imaging systems on Trilogy, Synergy, and Vero....Pages 358-361
A New Electron IMRT Technique for Breast Cancer: Comparison to Photon IMRT and Conventional Irradiation Based on Static and Dynamic Dose Measurements....Pages 362-365
TLD Correction Factor for Dose Delivery Verification on Gamma Radiation Cobalt-60 on Clinical Treatment....Pages 366-369
Development of Treatment Planning System in Peking University....Pages 370-372
Direct Monte-Carlo optimization (DMCO) with biological, physical and hybrid objective functions....Pages 373-376
4D calculation and biological dosimetry of the RBE-weighted dose for scanned carbon ion beam therapy....Pages 377-380
Radiobiological analysis of planned and delivered IMRT dose distributions....Pages 381-384
Impact of Truncation Correction in Flat-Detector Computed Tomography on Carbon Ion Radiotherapy Treatment Planning....Pages 385-388
Reconstruction of portal images from IMRT fields for patient setup verification....Pages 389-391
Comparison of IMRT and photon-electron-mix technique in radiotherapy treatment planning of ablatio mammae....Pages 392-395
Relative peripheral dose at IMRT- A comparison between Siemens Oncor and Artisté....Pages 396-398
EPID calibration method for transit in-vivo dosimetry....Pages 399-402
Guided radiotherapy by an in-vivo dosimetry for lung tumors....Pages 403-406
Implementation of a complete IMRT QA program and clinical experience with the DAVID chamber for in-vivo verification of IMRT deliveries....Pages 407-409
Enhancing the error detection capability of the DAVID system with the use of adaptive warning and alarm levels....Pages 410-412
PDD AND DOSE PROFILE FOR NARROW BEAMS OF A COBALT - 60 THERAPY UNIT TO BE USED IN STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY....Pages 413-416
Technical accuracy of a beam tracking system for scanned particle therapy of intra-fractionally moving targets....Pages 417-420
A Joint Research Project to improve the accuracy in dosimetry of brachytherapy treatments in the framework of the European Metrology Research Programme.....Pages 421-424
Proposals for a ICRU-50/62 -Consistent Dose Prescription Suited for IMRT Radiation Techniques....Pages 425-428
Fast Dose Calculations in Radiation Therapy with GPUs....Pages 429-432
Robust Radiobiological Optimization for Proton Therapy Treatment Planning....Pages 433-436
Neutron Therapy at the FRMII - Calculation of Dose inside a Voxel Phantom....Pages 437-440
Monte Carlo based independent monitor unit calculation in IMRT....Pages 441-444
Suggestion for an extended quality assurance in 4D CT and its function in gated radiotherapy using a motion phantom....Pages 445-448
On-line compensation of dose changes introduced by tumor motion during scanned particle therapy....Pages 449-452
Feasibility Study of the Use of Artificial Neural Networks in Predicting Acute Rectal and Urinary Bladder Toxicity Following Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy....Pages 453-456
Imaging QA Program for Image Guided RadioTherapy (IGRT)....Pages 457-459
Dose QA Using EPID and a Dose Prediction Algorithm Independent of the Planning System....Pages 460-462
Investigation of the Dose Distribution Quality Achievable with Arc-Modulated Cone Beam Therapy....Pages 463-466
Investigating the Reproducibility of Motion for Lung Tumours Treated with Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy....Pages 467-469
A Feasibility Study on Multi Prompt-Gamma-Ray Telescope System for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy....Pages 470-473
Measurement of Inter-fraction Changes in Bladder Volume Using Ultrasound Image Guidance for Gynecological Radiotherapy....Pages 474-475
A comparison of dose and energy-based mapping methods for 4D Monte Carlo dose calculation in deforming anatomy....Pages 476-478
IGRT and its Quality Assurance at the DKFZ....Pages 479-480
Implementing Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT): Initial Dosimetric Results for Retrospective Patient Study....Pages 481-483
Influence of Patient Movement and Anatomy Alteration on the Quality of 3D US-Based Prostate HDR Brachytherapy Treatment....Pages 484-487
Clinical Evaluation of an Intra-Modality 3D Ultrasound IGRT System....Pages 488-491
Quality assurance of a robotic, image guided radiosurgery system....Pages 492-495
Impact of Beam Alignment on Leakage of the Siemens 160 MLC TM ....Pages 496-498
Observations of Prostate Intrafractional Motion during External Beam Radiation Therapy....Pages 499-502
Imaging motion with a 4-row CT scanner (GE Light Speed RT)....Pages 503-506
Measurements of the Signal-to-Noise Ratio with “EPID QC Phantom ® ” and “epidSoft 2.0” from PTW....Pages 507-510
E-IMRT: a web platform for the verification and optimization of radiation treatment plans.....Pages 511-514
Tumor Alignment between 4DCT and 4D Cone Beam CT for Irregular Respiratory Patient - a Phantom Study....Pages 515-518
Analysis of Error Detection in EPID-Based IMRT Pre-Treatment QA....Pages 519-522
Improving the accuracy of entrance dosimetry measurements for dose modeling....Pages 523-526
Evaluation of the Twin Chamber Signal Ratio, a Physical Estimate of the Low- Energy Photon Contribution to Dose within Radiotherapy Fields....Pages 527-529
Uncertainties of RBE in treatment planning for ion beam tumor therapy: Experimental and modeling aspects....Pages 530-532
Efficacy of Cummulative Biological Doses at Various Points of Lymphatic Trapzoid Using Microselectron HDR....Pages 533-534
Obtaining information on intra-fraction prostate displacement in radiotherapy determined from pre- and post-treatment kV imaging....Pages 535-538
The Investigation of Dosimetric Reduction on Organs at Risk in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma for Static IMRT Planning....Pages 539-539
Dose calculations for clinical proton broad beams by GEANT4....Pages 540-543
Use of Nanoparticles in Brachytherapy – An Alternative for Enhancing Doses in Cancer Treatment ....Pages 544-547
Improvement in dose homogeneity in a patient with sinonasal cancer using nasal accessory....Pages 548-550
Implementations and first measurements with Delta 4 at the TomoTherapy....Pages 551-554
Dedicated treatment planning system for the evaluation of the doses delivered to the whole patient body during radiotherapy....Pages 555-558
Dose Verification of Critical Structures in Gamma Knife Radio Surgery of Pituitary Adenoma....Pages 559-561
Beam Angle Optimization in Particle Therapy with OptiC....Pages 562-565
Camera-based independent couch height verification in radiation oncology....Pages 566-568
4D-CT reconstruction based on body volume change....Pages 569-572
Monte-Carlo calculation of beam quality correction factors and comparison with experimental measurements....Pages 573-576
Localization of high dose rate 192 Ir source during brachytherapy treatment using silicon detectors....Pages 577-580
Systematic Studies on the Beam Stability and the Transient Effect of a Siemens ONCOR Impression Accelerator....Pages 581-584
The Dosimetric Study of Static MLC Based Electronic Tissue Compensation using In-house Leaf Sequencing Software....Pages 585-588
The Monte Carlo Code MCPTV- Dose Calculation in Radiation Therapy with Carbon Ions....Pages 589-590
Interfractional Variations of Shape and Impact on Dose of Organs at Risk in Head and Neck Cancer Patients during Helical Tomotherapy....Pages 591-594
Experimental determination of the radial dose distribution in high gradient regions from a low dose rate iridium-192 wire sources using EPR imaging....Pages 595-598
Dose Evaluation in Medulloblastoma Cancers....Pages 599-600
Output measurement for small field photon beams in a sandwiched phantom....Pages 601-603
Comparison of Monte Carlo Dose Calculation with Advanced Kernel Methods in External Photon Beam Treatment Planning....Pages 604-607
Verification of head & neck IMRT-plans by Monte Carlo simulation....Pages 608-611
Optimization of Catheter Position and Dwell Time in Prostate HDR Brachytherapy using HIPO and Linear Programming....Pages 612-615
Real-Time Compensation of Target Motion with a Dynamic Multileaf Collimator....Pages 616-619
An Augmented Reality Application for Patient Positioning and Monitoring in Radiotherapy....Pages 620-623
STATIONARY-GANTRY TOMOSYNTHESIS SYSTEM FOR ON-LINE IMAGE GUIDANCE IN RADIATION THERAPY BASED ON A 52-SOURCE COLD CATHODE X-RAY TUBE....Pages 624-627
Dosimetric Errors of TPS Calculations without Correction for Heterogeneity - A Study Using CIRS Thorax Phantom....Pages 628-630
Adjustable Prescription Dose: A New Strategy to Improve IMRT Treatment Planning....Pages 631-634
Segmented Deformable Registration for Improved Modeling of the Lungs....Pages 635-637
Basic investigation of boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) using novel boron agents and accelerator based neutron source....Pages 638-641
Robotic Phantom to Simulate Patient Breathing Motion....Pages 642-644
Improved simulation of small electron fields for external beam radiation therapy....Pages 645-648
The Feasibility of Goggle Monitor for Respiratory Biofeedback of Patient to Reduce Correlation Error Using Real-Time Tumor Tracking System....Pages 649-651
Improved Techniques to Assign Accurate Phase Information Of Respiratory Signals for 4D CT Reconstruction....Pages 652-655
Predicting Response in Lung Cancer from FDG-PET Uptake Characteristics....Pages 656-659
Determination of Dose Escalation Region in Malignant Brain tumors for Radiation Treatment Planning Based on Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Map....Pages 660-663
Backscatter Factors for a Clinical 6 MeV Electron Beam....Pages 664-666
Fast optimization of non-coplanar beam angle sets for intensity modulated radiation therapy....Pages 667-670
Can a Commercially Available TPS Be Used to Develop VMAT Solutions?....Pages 671-673
Considering marker visibility during leaf sequencing for segmental intensity-modulated radiation therapy....Pages 674-677
Tomotherapy Quality Assurance (TQA): A Fast and Comprehensive Software Tool....Pages 678-678
Monte Carlo Based Suggestion of the Best Choice for Material of a Multileaf Collimator (MLC) and the Required Thickness....Pages 679-682
BANG-3 ® polymer gel dosimetry in Cyberknife....Pages 683-685
Production of Ac-225 with Cyclotrons for Generating Bi-213 for Targeted Alpha Therapy....Pages 686-687
Development of customized program to generate 2D dose map with high resolution for 120 Leaf MLC....Pages 688-691
Development of an image-guided radiation therapy device for precise irradiation of small animal tumors....Pages 692-695
A finger leaf design for dual layer MLCs....Pages 696-699
Head scatter factor calculation considering characteristics of scattered photon....Pages 700-703
Monte Carlo Dose Calculation using GPU-Based parallel processing....Pages 704-707
Different simple Models for Optimizing Convergent Beam Multiple Field Irradiation for Stereotactic Treatment Techniques....Pages 708-710
Sparing of critical organs in radiotherapy of mediastinal lymphoma....Pages 711-713
Evaluation of dosimetric accuracies of gated step-and-shoot IMRT using Dynalog data....Pages 714-716
Linear Accelerator Photon Beam Interaction with the Virtual Physiological Human....Pages 717-720
Investigation into the Pinnacle SmartArc Module for VMAT Planning....Pages 721-724
Why still Multibeam Tomotherapy?....Pages 725-727
Comparison of beam data using diode and ion chamber in small field of CyberKnife....Pages 728-730
Characterization and Monte Carlo Simulation of Low- and High-Perturbation in-vivo Diode Dosimeters for 9 MV X-Rays....Pages 731-734
Development of an Optimized Pencil Beam Algorithm for Radiation Therapy....Pages 735-738
How Much Target Average Positions in Thorax Region Change Daily?....Pages 739-739
Accuracy evaluation of using MV EPID and / or integrated kV imaging system to locate 3D positions of internal fiducial markers using a Calypso system....Pages 740-743
In-hospital neutron autoradiography for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy applications....Pages 744-747
Introduction of a Breath Gating System in a Clinical Environment....Pages 748-749
Computerized Treatment Planning Directives for Adaptive Radiation Therapy Management....Pages 750-753
Fast range compensation inside the beam line for beam tracking in particle therapy....Pages 754-757
Optimal delivery of DMLC Arc Therapy....Pages 758-761
Small Photon Field Dosimetry using Gel....Pages 762-764
A Method for Evaluation of Target Point Correction in Fractionated Radiotherapy....Pages 765-768
Performance of patient specific margins derived using a Bayesian statistical method....Pages 769-771
Combination of External/Image-Based Detection of Respiratory Induced Motion and Adaption with a Gating Mechanism....Pages 772-775
How Regular Motion Pattern and Patient Individual Respiration Curves Affect Contour and Volume of Geometric Structures in a 4D CT....Pages 776-779
Comparison of Daily Online Ultrasound and MV-CBCT Localization Data for Post Prostatectomy Cancer Patients and Implications for PTV Margin Expansion....Pages 780-783
Comparison of Localization Techniques for Prostate Radiotherapy....Pages 784-787
Optimized Spinal Cord Contour Propagation for Fractionated Radiation Therapy Planning....Pages 788-791
A comprehensive quality assurance Program for radiotherapy using TLD : The Algerian Experience....Pages 792-793
Optimization of an external beam radiotherapy treatment using GAMOS/Geant4....Pages 794-797
Simplified Geometrical Model for Treatment Margins Evaluation in Brain Radiosurgery....Pages 798-801
Characterization of a PMMA embedded extrapolation chamber in 60 Co gamma beams....Pages 802-804
Comparison of different evaluation programs for the verification of patient irradiations with tomotherapy....Pages 805-808
Monte Carlo simulation of novel procedures for highly conformal percutaneous radiation with keV-photons for tumor treatment in skin proximity....Pages 809-812
Monte Carlo benchmarking of a CCC-based treatment planning system in case of irregularly shaped fields....Pages 813-816
Radioiodine Biokinetics and Dosimetry in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma and Renal Insufficiency....Pages 817-820
Developments in MRI-based radiation treatment planning....Pages 821-824
Electron beam dosimetry in heterogeneous phantoms using MAGIC normoxic polymer gel....Pages 825-828
Dosimetric Testing of a New Release of 3D Treatment Planning System with the IAEA-TECDOC-1540....Pages 829-832
Absorbed Dose Reference for LDR Brachytherapy the LNE-LNHB Approach....Pages 833-839
Image enhancement techniques allowing observation of intra-fractional motion in IMRT treatment for prostate carcinoma....Pages 840-843
DIRART – A Software Suite for Deformable Image Registration and Adaptive Radiotherapy Research....Pages 844-847
An Alternative Approach to Inverse Planning Optimization: Applying the Projection Theorem to Concave and Convex PTVs for VMAT Delivery....Pages 848-851
3 Years of Data Collection and Analysis of Film Flatness and Symmetry Using Vidar/RIT Software from Different Centers Nation Wide....Pages 852-853
Small Field MV Photon Dosimetry....Pages 854-854
Virtual Spirometry: Utilizing an abdominal bellows system for quantitatively gating in 4D CT acquisition....Pages 855-858
In vivo dosimetry for patient specific quality assurance in aperture based IMRT....Pages 859-862
Validation of a Biplanar Diode Array Dosimeter for Helical Tomotherapy Delivery QA....Pages 863-866
Comparison between Clinically Used Irregular Fields Shaped by Cerrobend Blocks and by Multileaf Collimator Using a Clarkson Sector Integration Computer Program....Pages 867-870
Evaluation of 3-D Treatment Plans Using Physical and Motorised Enhanced Dynamic Wedges....Pages 871-872
Integral Dose in Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy, and Helical Tomotherapy....Pages 873-874
Extension of Electron Monte Carlo Dose Calculation in Eclipse to Siemens Linear Accelerators....Pages 875-877
Current Status of the HIBMC, Providing Particle Beam Radiation Therapy for More Than 2,600 Patients, and the Prospects of Laser-Driven Proton Radiotherapy....Pages 878-882
Monte Carlo Study of Depth Dose Calculation for Low Energy Clinical Electron Beams....Pages 883-886
Setup Variations and Tumor Margins Using the ExacTrac X-Ray 6D in Prostate Radiotherapy....Pages 887-889
Useful Techniques for Tomotherapy Treatment Planning....Pages 890-892
Optimization of Radial Dose Function for Varian Ir-192 Brachytherapy Source Model VS2000....Pages 893-896
On the Use of a Light Ion Kernel for Biologically Optimized Adaptive Inverse Treatment Planning....Pages 897-899
Range, Setup and Dose Calculation Errors in IMPT and Their Interrelation....Pages 900-903
Motion-Weighted Dose-Volume Histograms – A Novel Approach to 4D Treatment Planning....Pages 904-907
Assessing Correlations between the Spatial Distribution of Dose to the Rectal Wall and Late Rectal Toxicity after Prostate Radiotherapy....Pages 908-911
Design and Physical Properties of an Iris TM Collimator for Robotic Radiosurgery....Pages 912-915
Evaluation of the Clinical Utility of an Iris TM Collimator Combined with a Sequential Optimization Algorithm for Robotic Radiosurgery....Pages 916-919
A Quality Assurance Tool Based on kV- and MV-Image Analysis for a Linear Accelerator Including an Integrated IGRT System....Pages 920-923
MRI and CT Slice Thickness Evaluation by Computerized Dedicated Procedures....Pages 924-927
Re-planning for Compensator-Based IMRT with Original Compensators....Pages 928-931
Single-Pulse-Resolved Dosimetry with Miniaturized Detectors in Teletherapy....Pages 932-935
The evaluation of therapeutic effect of trastuzumab labeled 177 lu in breast cancer cell line....Pages 936-937
SURE-LET and BLS-GSM wavelet-based denoising algorithms versus linear Local Wiener Estimator in Radiotherapy portal image denoising.....Pages 938-940
Learning from Incidents in Radiation Treatment....Pages 941-944
Combined Dose Distribution for the External Beam Whole Breast Irradiation and MammoSite Breast Brachytherapy: Monte Carlo Investigation....Pages 945-948
In-vivo Proton Beam Shaping Using Static Magnetic Field for Cancer Therapy....Pages 949-951
A Preliminary Study on Development of QA System for Stereotactic Head Frame and Its Reliability and Accuracy....Pages 952-954
Performance and Clinical Trial in vivo of a Scintillation Dosimeter in Brachytherapy....Pages 955-958
Algorithm Development of Designing a Patient-Specific Block for MC-Based Dose Calculation in Electron Beam Therapy for Breast Cancer....Pages 959-961
An Air Core Scintillation Dosimeter for Megavoltage External Beam Dosimetry: Experimental Results....Pages 962-965
An Air Core Cerenkov Free Scintillation Dosimeter: Monte Carlo Simulation for External Beam Radiation Therapy....Pages 966-969
Simulation Study on Coverage of Tumor Motion Accordance with the Scanning Time in Slow-Scan CT....Pages 970-972
Calibration of Therapy-level Dosimeters in Japan by Association for Nuclear Technology in Medicine (ANTM)....Pages 973-976
Out-of-Treatment Room Set-Up for Patient Positioning in External Beam Radiotherapy....Pages 977-980
Application of 2 Step IMRT to Spinal Tumors: A Preliminary Retrospective Planning Study Comparison with Classical IMRT....Pages 981-984
Comparison of Two different Methods for describing the geometry of a Voxelized Anthropomorphic Phantom in Radiotherapy Treatment Plans....Pages 985-988
Measuring system for testing the mechanical isocenter accuracy of medical linear accelerators....Pages 989-992
Validation of the SUV values calculation in the iPlan 4.0 Treatment Planning System (BrainLAB)....Pages 993-995
New system for TBI with translation method at the Institute of Oncology Ljubljana....Pages 996-997
Estimation of Free Electron Fraction Value p for a Parallel-Plate Ionization Chamber in High Dose Per Pulse IORT Electron Beams....Pages 998-1000
VMC++: Validation of the Monte Carlo code for low energies....Pages 1001-1003
Dose Distribution Depending on the Number of Control Points in Forward-Planned Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer....Pages 1004-1007
Method of Combined Proton-Photon Radiation Therapy of Prostate Cancer....Pages 1008-1008
Conversion of Greyscale Intensity Values from CBCT Images Acquired on Elekta XVI to HU for Treatment Planning Dose Calculations....Pages 1009-1011
Dosimetric Comparison between Helical Tomotherapy and Biologically Based IMRT Treatment Planning System for Selected Cases....Pages 1012-1015
Study of a CVD diamond detector for absorbed dose measurement in photon beams with small field sizes....Pages 1016-1019
Analysis of Dose Shifts induced by Organ Movements during Treatment with TomoTherapy using a Motion Phantom and GafChromic EBT Films....Pages 1020-1023
Tolerance of the Spinal Cord to Hypofractionated Radiotherapy Based on a Generalized Biological Effective Dose (gBED) Model....Pages 1024-1026
Reproducibility of neutron activated Sm-153 in tablets intended for human volunteer studies....Pages 1027-1030
Sequential Optimization Scripts to Facilitate Treatment Planning for Robotic Radiosurgery Clinical Studies for Prostate and Lung Cancers....Pages 1031-1034
Comparative study between IBT or EBRT boost doses at organs at risk in Cervical Cancer treatment....Pages 1035-1037
Beam Characterization for Step-and-Shoot IMRT....Pages 1038-1041
Assessment of Image Guidance Using kV Orthogonal Images and Cone Beam CT for Liver Stereotactic Radiosurgery....Pages 1042-1045
Dosimetric Effects of Gantry Angular Acceleration and Deceleration in Volumetric Modulated Radiation Therapy....Pages 1046-1050
Evaluation of Multileaf Collimator Effect on the Build-Up Dose Region Using Different Ionization Chambers....Pages 1051-1054
Standard Absorbed Dose to Water for HDR Brachytherapy Sources with Fricke Dosimetry....Pages 1055-1056
Monoscopic Imaging for Intra-fraction Motion Management....Pages 1057-1059
Clinac Performance: Watching the First Seconds....Pages 1060-1062
Accelerated Dose Calculation Engine for Interstitial Brachytherapy....Pages 1063-1066
Updated Beam Parameters for Monte Carlo Simulation of Five Varian Megavoltage Photon Beams (4, 6, 10, 15 and 18 MV)....Pages 1067-1070
Single and Multibeam Dose Distribution for Treatment Planning of Cancer....Pages 1071-1073
Quantitative Analyses of Normal Tissue Effects in the Clinic (QUANTEC): Clinical Use....Pages 1074-1074
The Lessons of QUANTEC (Quantitative Analysis of Normal Tissue Effects in the Clinic): Recommendations for Reporting and Gathering Data on Dose-Volume Dependencies of Treatment Outcome....Pages 1075-1075
Back Matter....Pages 1077-1084