Introduction ...........................................................103 IMRT or 3DCRT? ...................................................105 The MSKCC IMRT Planning Process....................107 Patient Selection • Patient Simulation And Structure Localization • Selection Of Beam Energy, Number, And Direction • Optimization • Conversion Of Intensity Profiles To Leaf Motion • Forward Dose ...

Radiotherapy treatment is often delivered in a fractionated manner over a period of time. Emerging delivery devices are able to determine the actual dose that has been delivered at each stage facilitating the use of adaptive treatment plans that compensate for errors in delivery. We formulate a model of the day-to-day planning problem as a stochastic program and exhibit the gains that can be ac...

Editorial The introduction and success of dental implants has had positive results for many patients but has also caused turmoil in the treatment planning arena. The advent of implants as a predictable clinical treatment modality has modified the traditional endodontic treatment planning paradigm. Previously, patients having a tooth at risk were evaluated by a generalist or sent to an endodon-t...

This paper presents a methodology to plan treatments for rehabilitation outpatients. These patients require a series of treatments by therapists from various disciplines. In current practice, when treatments are planned, a lack of coordination between the different disciplines, alongwith a failure to plan the entire treatment plan at once, often occurs. This situation jeopardizes both the quali...

Objective: A process and system of treatment planning is very important in radiation therapy. The features of the software and the accuracy in the dose calculation and dose distribution will affect to the treatment quality as well as the patient outcome. When a treatment planning system is applied in treatment at the first time, it should be checked and approved all its system information, feat...

cult choices regarding whether a tooth with pulpal and/or periapical disease should be saved through endodontic treatment or be extracted and replaced with an implant. Methods. The authors examined publications (research, literature reviews and systematic reviews) related to the factors affecting decision making for patients who have oral diseases or traumatic injuries. Results. The factors to ...

introduction interaluminal brachytherapy is one of the important methods of esophageal cancer treatment. the effect of applicator attenuation is not considered in dose calculation method released by aapm-tg43. in this study, the effect of high-dose rate (hdr) brachytherapy esophageal applicator on dose distribution was surveyed in hdr brachytherapy. materials and methods a cylindrical pmma phan...