title: A practical technique to avoid the hippocampus in prophylactic cranial irradiation for lung cancer.
abstract: A practical technique is presented to deliver hippocampus avoiding prophylactic cranial irradiation for lung cancer patients, using two lateral fields. For a prescribed dose of 12×2.5 Gy, sparing of the hippocampi to 6.1 Gy was achieved with a V95% of the brain of 81.7%.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. z.vankesteren@amc.uva.nl
authors.forename: Zdenko
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: van Kesteren
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Belderbos
authors.forename: Marcel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: van Herk
authors.forename: Agnieszka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Olszewska
authors.forename: Emmy
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lamers
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: De Ruysscher
authors.forename: Eugène
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Damen
authors.forename: Corine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: van Vliet-Vroegindeweij
mesh_terms: D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000556:secondary; D016371:Cranial Irradiation / Q000379:methods*; D019583:Dose Fractionation, Radiation; D005260:Female; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000528:radiation effects*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D058958:Organs at Risk; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D011880:Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed