Breathing-motion induced interplay effects for stereotactic body radiotherapy of liver tumours using flattening-filter free volumetric modulated arc therapy.

In conclusion, statistically significant breathing-induced interplay effects were observed for a single fraction of FFF VMAT liver SBRT, resulting in heterogeneous dose distributions within the GTV.
PMID: 30618412 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Physics in Medicine and Biology - January 8, 2019 Category: Physics Authors: Edvardsson A, Scherman J, Nilsson MP, Wennberg B, Nordström F, Ceberg C, Ceberg S Tags: Phys Med Biol Source Type: research