TCRT October 2006

Volume 5
No. 5 (p 445-542)
October 2006
ISSN 1533-0338

New Developments in Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (p. 451-464)

As intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) becomes routine clinical practice, its advantages and limitations are better understood. With these new understandings, some new developments have emerged in an effort to alleviate the limitations of the current IMRT practice. This article describes a few of these efforts made at the University of Maryland, including: i) improving IMRT efficiency with direct aperture optimization; ii) broadening the scope of optimization to include the mode of delivery and beam angles; and iii) new planning methods for intensity modulated arc therapy (IMAT).

Cedric Yu, D.Sc.^1,*
David Shepard, Ph.D.^1,a
Matt Earl, Ph.D.¹
Daliang Cao, Ph.D.¹
Shuang Luan, Ph.D.²
Chao Wang, M.S.³
Danny Z. Chen, Ph.D.³

¹Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
22 S Greene St.
Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
²Department of Computer Science
University of New Mexico
Mail Stop: MSC01 1130
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
³Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA

^aCurrent Address:
Swedish Cancer Institute
1221 Madison St., 1st Floor
Seattle, WA 94104, USA
*cyu002@umaryland.edu

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