Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2017) | Viewed by 13116
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Interests: proton therapy; optimization algorithm for radiation therapy; data mining and engineering in radiation therapy; high performance computing in medicine
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Dear Colleagues,
Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), an advanced mode of high-precision radiotherapy, represents the major technological advance in radiation therapy in the last several decades. IMRT allows higher radiation doses to be focused to regions within the tumor while minimizing the doses to surrounding normal critical structures. This advance in delivery technology allows radiation to be delivered to patients in the form of step-and-shoot intensity-modulated x-ray therapy (IMXT), sliding window IMXT, volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), and intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT). Because higher and more effective radiation doses can safely be delivered to tumors with fewer side effects compared with conventional radiotherapy techniques, IMRT is now becoming the standard of care for radiation therapy of most disease sites. IMRT is an ideal topic for researchers to exchange ideas and share state-of-the-art developments in different disciplines.
Dr. Xiaodong Zhang
Guest Editor
Keywords
- IMRT
- IMPT
- VMAT
- proton
- optimization
- inverse planning
- radiomics
- machine learning
- big data
- imaging guidance
- dose calculation
- PET
- MRI
- automatic planning
- knowledge-based planning
- data mining
- outcome
- statistical modeling
- clinical workflow
- quality assurance