title: [Glossary of conformal radiotherapy].
abstract: Most of the concepts and terms related to conformal radiotherapy were produced by English-speaking authors and eventually validated by international groups of experts, whose working language was also English. Therefore, a significant part of this literature is poorly accessible to the French-speaking radiation oncology community. The present paper gathers the 'official' definitions already published in French, along with propositions for the remaining terms which should be submitted to a more formal and representative validation process.
authors.affiliation: Département d'oncologie-radiothérapie, Institut Curie, Paris, France.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dubray
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Giraud
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Beaudré
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D011880:Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D011881:Radiotherapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D020266:Radiotherapy, Conformal; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed