Image-Guided IMRT

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bortfeld, Thomas (Editor), Schmidt-Ullrich, Rupert (Editor), Neve, Wilfried De (Editor), Wazer, David E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Radiotherapy.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.

Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), one of the most important developments in radiation oncology in the past 25 years, involves technology to deliver radiation to tumors in the right location, quantity and time. Unavoidable irradiation of surrounding normal tissues is distributed so as to...