Task Group 101 of the AAPM has prepared this report for medical physicists, clinicians, and
therapists in order to outline the best practice guidelines for the external‐beam radiation …

PURPOSE: To identify the dose–volume parameters that predict the risk of chest wall (CW)
pain and/or rib fracture after lung stereotactic body radiotherapy. METHODS AND …

The integration of adaptive radiation therapy (ART), or modifying the treatment plan during
the treatment course, is becoming more widely available in clinical practice. ART offers strong …

This executive summary briefly describes the overall goals and content of the report on safety
consideration for stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (…

Purpose: Modeling studies have demonstrated a potential biologic advantage of fractionated
stereotactic radiotherapy for malignant brain tumors as compared to radiosurgery (SRS), …

Purpose: Linac arc based stereotactic radiotherapy is being used with increasing frequency
to treat brain tumors. This approach can be used for single or fractionated treatments, and is …

Intracranial stereotactic positioning systems (ISPSs) are used to position patients prior to
precise radiation treatment of localized lesions of the brain. Often, the lesion is located in close …

Background Impaired function of masticatory muscles will lead to trismus. Routine delineation
of these muscles during planning may improve dose tracking and facilitate dose reduction …

PURPOSE: Voluntary deep inhalation breath hold (VDIBH) reduces heart dose during left
breast irradiation. We present results of the first study performed to quantify reproducibility of …

Radiation therapy is an effective, personalized cancer treatment that has benefited from
technological advances associated with the growing ability to identify and target tumors with …