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  • Prostate IMRT fractionation strategies : two-phase treatment versus simultaneous integrated boost
    Stavrev, Pavel ; Hristov, Dimitre
    Background. The purpose of the study was to investigate the radiobiological effect of the number of fractions, position uncertainties and clonogen spread (microscopic disease) on two different ... inverse treatment planning alternatives: (a) 2-phase strategy; (b) simultaneous integrated boost (SIB). Material and methods. The tumour control probability (TCP) and normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) were calculated for the 2-phase strategy, which has well defined fractionation scheme and compared to the TCP and NTCP for the SIB strategy calculated as a function of the number of fractions. For a 7-beam IMRT prostate treatment, we have performed inverse treatment planningfor the two different strategies following the above method. Results. When the position uncertainties and clonogen spread were accounted for in the TCP calculation a drop as large as 10% was found. A drop of 5-7% in the TCP was obtained for the SIB strategy, if delivered in the same number of fractions as the 2-phased one. Conclusions. The potential of inverse planning to design tight conformal dose distributions is fully revealed in the SIB optimiyation process. The optimized SIB superior does distributions require modification of the delivered dose per fraction and therefore careful selection of the fractionation regime. Hence physically optimized SIB treatments may not always lead to better tumour control and tissue sparing.
    Vir: Radiology and oncology. - ISSN 1318-2099 (Vol. 37, no. 2, jun. 2003, str. 115-126)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 2003
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 16559321

vir: Radiology and oncology. - ISSN 1318-2099 (Vol. 37, no. 2, jun. 2003, str. 115-126)

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