title: A comparison of prostate IMRT and helical tomotherapy class solutions.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to assess a variety of potential IMRT class solutions as compared to a helical tomotherapy (HT) class solution for localized prostate cancer. Target and critical structures were contoured on 10 prostate cancer patient CT datasets. HT treatment plans were compared to four different IMRT approaches by paired t-tests. HT prostate planning generally provided treatment plans with excellent target homogeneity and favorable critical structure sparing when compared to conventional IMRT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, London Health Sciences, London, Ont., Canada. george.rodrigues@lhsc.on.ca
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
authors.forename: Slav
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yartsev
authors.forename: Jeff
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Eugene
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: D'Souza
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lock
authors.forename: Glenn
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bauman
authors.forename: Grigor
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Grigorov
authors.forename: Tomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kron
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D011880:Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted; D020266:Radiotherapy, Conformal; D050397:Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed