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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS
Volume 100, Issue 2, Pages 361-373Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2017.10.020
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- Elekta
- National Health Service
- Cancer Research UK (CRUK) [C33589/A19727]
- Cancer Research UK [19727] Funding Source: researchfish
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Radiation therapy to the prostate involves increasingly sophisticated delivery techniques and changing fractionation schedules. With a low estimated alpha/beta ratio, a larger dose per fraction would be beneficial, with moderate fractionation schedules rapidly becoming a standard of care. The integration of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner and linear accelerator allows for accurate soft tissue tracking with the capacity to replan for the anatomy of the day. Extreme hypofractionation schedules become a possibility using the potentially automated steps of autosegmentation, MRI-only workflow, and real-time adaptive planning. The present report reviews the steps involved in hypofractionated adaptive MRI-guided prostate radiation therapy and addresses the challenges for implementation. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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