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Reports from D. Schuring and co-researchers add new data to research in life sciences
Published in Cancer Weekly, December 23rd, 2008
In this recently published article, scientists in Netherlands conducted a study "To investigate the influence of inhomogeneity corrections on stereotactic treatment plans for non-small cell lung cancer and determine the dose delivered to the PTV and OARs. For 26 patients with stage-I NSCLC treatment plans were optimized with unit density (UD), an equivalent pathlength algorithm (EPL), and a collapsed- cone (CC) algorithm, prescribing 60 Gy to the PTV."
"After optimization the first two plans were recalculated with the more accurate CC algorithm. Dose parameters were compared for the three different optimized plans. Dose to the target and OARs was evaluated for the...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-12-23)
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