What is it about?
We propose a new irradiation technique for breast radiotherapy and did a retrospective dosimetric evaluation of forty female breast cancer patients (20 left-sided and 20 right-sided).
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Why is it important?
In this survey we could show that a combination of classical tangential open fields with VMAT-arcs enables an excellent dose distribution with regard to dose coverage of the target volume and exposure of the organs-at-risks. Further, the proposed technique is superior compared to multiple-field IMRT or full-arc VMAT because the exposure of the lateral side is decreased to a negligible level.
Perspectives
The investigation of the benefit of the dose exposure to the lateral side as well as the benefit of our proposed method as a robust irradadiation technique is projected as future work.
Sven Vaegler
Medizinisches Versorgungszentrum an der Universitätsmedizin Greifswald GmbH
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This page is a summary of: Evaluation of a new hybrid VMAT simultaneous integrated boost technique for breast radiotherapy, Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/cdbme-2017-0068.
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