Journal article
SU‐FF‐T‐439: Treatment Planning to Achieve Skin Sparing with Tomotherapy
Abstract
Purpose: To determine the extent to which skin dose can be reduced by defining the skin as a Region at Risk (RAR) structure to an IMRT treatment plan of a head and neck patient being delivered with a tomotherapy unit. Method and Materials: The head and neck section of a RANDO phantom was imaged in a CT scanner and two treatment plans were created for it simulating the treatment of a head and neck cancer. Both plans were identical, with the …
Authors
Studinski R; Cherpak A; Cygler J; Gerig L; Saoudi A; Carty K; Fox G; Montgomery L
Journal
Medical Physics, Vol. 33, No. 6Part13, pp. 2146–2146
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
June 2006
DOI
10.1118/1.2241358
ISSN
0094-2405