Purpose. To develop and disseminate a report aimed primarily at practicing radiation
oncology physicians and medical physicists that describes the current state-of-the-art of …

The major goal for prostate cancer imaging in the next decade is more accurate disease
characterization through the synthesis of anatomic, functional, and molecular imaging …

PURPOSE This study investigates whether focal boosting of the macroscopic visible tumor
with external beam radiotherapy increases biochemical disease-free survival (bDFS) in …

Intensity‐modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) represents one of the most significant
technical advances in radiation therapy since the advent of the medical linear accelerator. It …

Purpose: To describe our initial clinical experience with intensity-modulated whole pelvic
radiotherapy (IM-WPRT) in women with gynecologic malignancies. Methods and Materials …

Clinical conformal radiotherapy is the holy grail of radiation treatment and is now becoming
a reality through the combined efforts of physical scientists and engineers, who have …

Purpose Radiotherapy is the main therapeutic approach besides surgery of localized
prostate cancer. It relies on risk stratification and exact staging. This report analyses the …

PURPOSE: To determine the effect of radiotherapy dose on prostate cancer patient outcome
and biopsy positivity in a phase III trial. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A total of 305 stage T1 …

Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) provides a noninvasive method of
detecting small molecular markers (historically the metabolites choline and citrate) within the …

A great deal of quantitative information regarding the dose–volume relationships of pelvic
organs at risk has been collected and analysed over the last 10 years. The need to improve …