A comparison of prostate IMRT and helical tomotherapy class solutions.
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.
Rodrigues
George
G
Department of Radiation Oncology, London Health Sciences, London, Ont., Canada. george.rodrigues@lhsc.on.ca
Yartsev
Slav
S
Chen
Jeff
J
Wong
Eugene
E
D'Souza
David
D
Lock
Michael
M
Bauman
Glenn
G
Grigorov
Grigor
G
Kron
Tomas
T
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