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Hyperthermia treatment planning
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Lagendijk, J. J. W. |
| Copyright Year | 2000 |
| Description | Journal: Physics in Medicine & Biology The development of hyperthermia, the treatment of tumours with elevated temperatures in the range of 40-44 °C with treatment times over 30 min, greatly benefits from the development of hyperthermia treatment planning. This review briefly describes the state of the art in hyperthermia technology, followed by an overview of the developments in hyperthermia treatment planning. It particularly highlights the significant problems encountered with heating realistic tissue volumes and shows how treatment planning can help in designing better heating technology. Hyperthermia treatment planning will ultimately provide information about the actual temperature distributions obtained and thus the tumour control probabilities to be expected. This will improve our understanding of the present clinical results of thermoradiotherapy and thermochemotherapy, and will greatly help both in optimizing clinical heating technology and in designing optimal clinical trials. |
| Related Links | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-9155/45/5/201/pdf |
| Ending Page | R76 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| Starting Page | R61 |
| ISSN | 00319155 |
| e-ISSN | 13616560 |
| DOI | 10.1088/0031-9155/45/5/201 |
| Journal | Physics in Medicine & Biology |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| Volume Number | 45 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing |
| Publisher Date | 2000-05-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Physics in Medicine & Biology Pharmacology and Pharmacy Treatment Planning Hyperthermia Treatment Development of Hyperthermia |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging Radiological and Ultrasound Technology |
