BACKGROUND Radiation recall pneumonitis (RRP) describes a rare reaction in previously irradiated area of pulmonary tissue after application of triggering agents. RRP remains loosely characterized and poorly understood since it has so far only been depicted in 8 cases in the literature. The objective of the study is to disclose the general characteristics of RRP induced by chemotherapy after tho...

Purpose: The Australian Clinical Dosimetry Service (ACDS) has been auditing and New Zealand radiotherapy providers for nearly 10 years building the National Dataset of audit measurements. audits have uncovered numerous issues with varying significance. This paper will present an update ACDS including trends within recent findings then cover more advanced modalities such as SRS, SBRT, VMAT adapt...

Introduction: In external beam radiotherapy each effort is done to deliver 3D dose distribution onto the tumor volume uniformly, while minimizing the dose to healthy organs at the same time. Radiation treatment of tumors located at thorax region such as lung and liver has a challenging issue during target localization since these tumors move mainly due to respiration. There are...