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Fig. 1 Target volume concept according to ICRU 62: gross tumor volume (GTV); clinical target volume (CTV); internal target volume (ITV); planning target volume (PTV) Table 1 Uncertainties in radiotherapy…

Reference Number of patients RPA class I RPA class II RPA class III Gaspar et al. (1997) 1,200 7.1 4.2 2.3 Lutterbach et al. (2002) 916 8.2 4.9 1.8 (IIIA…

Fig. 1 A 36-year-old female presented with early-stage, unfavorable Hodgkin lymphoma and was treated with combined modality therapy consisting of six cycles of ABVD followed by low-dose (20 Gy) consolidation…

Fig. 1 A 40-year-old male was treated for a radiation-induced atypical clival meningioma. He had a history of a pediatric posterior fossa tumor, reported as a glioblastoma, and had received…

As their above studies included all symptomatic late complications (except xerostomia), the complication rates of individual OAR were actually much lower than 20 %. This formula of estimation is very…

Author Case number Technique/dose Median survival Brachytherapy Scharfen et al. (1992) 66 GBM Brachytherapy I-125 64.4 Gy 11.3 months Sneed et al. (1997) 66 GBM 45 WHO III Brachytherapy I-125…

Fig. 1 The therapeutic index. (a) Therapeutic index for treatment with radiation alone. Radiation with dose A implies specific probabilities for tumor cure and normal tissue toxicity (e.g., 50 %…

Fig. 1 Example of an internationally used systematic biopsy scheme which can be used to prove a local recurrence. The number of cores depicted here is 10 Next, the evaluation…

Fig. 1 (a) A 75-year-old Caucasian male who previously received 50 Gy in 20 daily fractions using superficial energy photons in the setting of a squamous cell carcinoma. Note the…

Fig. 1 (a, b) Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans at initial presentation with skeletal metastases from prostate cancer in a 66-year-old man, previously treated with radical prostatectomy (a). The white…