From IMRT to IGRT: frontierland or neverland? Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The recent enthusiasm for real-time image guidance in radiotherapy (IGRT) is in part due to the commercial availability of advanced on-line imaging technologies. Perhaps more important than its potential to improve conventional radiotherapy, IGRT may lead to a paradigm shift in facilitating hypo-fractionated or single-dose treatment. However, there are uncertainty regarding features and approaches of competing IGRT systems and as to whether a sub-set of the features of an ideal IGRT system would suffice for specific disease sites and clinical applications. Clinical studies are necessary for the quantification of benefit needed for evidence-based medicine.

publication date

  • January 18, 2006

Research

keywords

  • Radiotherapy, Computer-Assisted
  • Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 33644761975

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.radonc.2005.12.005

PubMed ID

  • 16413622

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 78

issue

  • 2