Uniaxial and biaxial irradiation protocols for microbeam radiation therapy.
Synchrotron-generated x-ray beams for microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) are fixed in space, so three-dimensional treatment planning would require that a patient be secured to, and moved in a gantry between exposures. Two protocols for such movements are proposed: one for uniaxial opposing-fields cross-planar MRT, the other for biaxial orthogonal-fields co-planar MRT.
Slatkin
Daniel N
DN
dslatkin@optonline.net
D000818:Animals; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D011880:Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D017356:Synchrotrons; D014965:X-Rays