The Royal Marsden Hospital pelvic radiotherapy trial: technical aspects and quality assurance.
Planning and quality control procedures are described for a randomised trial designed to measure the effect on normal tissue toxicity of reducing the volume of normal tissue irradiated through the introduction of Beams-Eye-View designed customised blocks. Consideration is given to the accuracy with which blocks can be designed and to the potential application of multi-leaf collimator technology.
Mayles
W P
WP
Department of Physics, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK.
Chow
M
M
Dyer
J
J
Fernandez
E M
EM
Heisig
S
S
Knight
R T
RT
Moore
I
I
Nahum
A E
AE
Shentall
G S
GS
Tait
D M
DM
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010386:Pelvic Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D011786:Quality Control; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D011880:Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted