Intrafraction Patient Movement in Spinal IMRT. Consequences for CTV-PTC Margins.

Event: 4th International Conference of the Novalis Circle 2008
Topic: Positioning and Monitoring
Year: 2008

Ruud Wiggenraad from the Medical Center Haaglanden in the Hague, The Netherlands, discusses the consequences of intrafraction patient movement in spinal IMRT for CTV-PTV margins. He begins by outlining study: the types of patients, the purpose, as well as the methods and results and how errors were impacted by integrating ExacTrac.

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Ruud Wiggenraad

Ruud Wiggenraad
Medical Center Haaglanden, Netherlands

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This presentation is about Intrafraction patient movement in spinal IMRT, and the consequences of this movement for the CTV-PTV margins. We did this work with our colleagues of the Clinical Physics department, Jaap van Egmond, and Jan van Santvoort. The kind of patients we talk about are patients with a target in the spinal or the paraspinal areas, and we want to give them a dose that is, a CTV a dose that is higher than the tolerance dose of the spinal cord. And we usually do that with IMRT with Novalis. These treatments have a duration of at least...

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