Tomotherapy

Masayuki Matsuo; Kazuhiro Miwa; Jun Shinoda; Hironori Nishibori; Kouta Sakurai; Shinya Hayashi; Osamu Tanaka; Kazuhiro Otakara; Masayuki Kanematsu; Hiroaki Hoshi

Tomotherapy

Masayuki Matsuo
, Kazuhiro Miwa
, Jun Shinoda
, Hironori Nishibori
, Kouta Sakurai
, Shinya Hayashi
, Osamu Tanaka
, Kazuhiro Otakara
, Masayuki Kanematsu
, Hiroaki Hoshi

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Abstract

Helical tomotherapy is an integrated radiotherapy technique which combines IMRT capabilities with CT image guidance in a single piece of equipment. The combination of the hardware and a series of processes make tomotherapy an ideal machine for image guided adaptive radiotherapy (IGART). This is the first helical tomotherapy system in clinical use. It employs 51 arc segments per rotation and has 64 binary leaves. This unrivalled modulation capability is especially useful to maintain homogeneous dose distributions to the target while avoiding neighboring normal tissue structures. Some tomotherapy characteristics, processes and capabilities are described.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	145-152
Number of pages	8
Journal	Biotherapy
Volume	22
Issue number	3
Publication status	Published - 05-2008
Externally published	Yes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Oncology
Cancer Research

Cite this

@article{981312e22b1042ef878a4fd719b748db,

title = "Tomotherapy",

abstract = "Helical tomotherapy is an integrated radiotherapy technique which combines IMRT capabilities with CT image guidance in a single piece of equipment. The combination of the hardware and a series of processes make tomotherapy an ideal machine for image guided adaptive radiotherapy (IGART). This is the first helical tomotherapy system in clinical use. It employs 51 arc segments per rotation and has 64 binary leaves. This unrivalled modulation capability is especially useful to maintain homogeneous dose distributions to the target while avoiding neighboring normal tissue structures. Some tomotherapy characteristics, processes and capabilities are described.",

author = "Masayuki Matsuo and Kazuhiro Miwa and Jun Shinoda and Hironori Nishibori and Kouta Sakurai and Shinya Hayashi and Osamu Tanaka and Kazuhiro Otakara and Masayuki Kanematsu and Hiroaki Hoshi",

note = "Funding Information: From the University of ldYisconsinM edical School, Madison, WI.. This work was supported in part by the National Institutes of Heallh (CA48902); General Electric Medical Systems; the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center,{"} the Department of Medical Physics, the Department of Human Oncology, the Graduate School, and the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin; and Siemens Oncology Systems. T. R. Mackie aMP. Reckwerdt havef inancial interest in TomoT herapy, \textbackslash{}[nc,w hich may participate in the commercialization of tomotherapy. Address reprint requests to T. Rockwell Mackie, PhD, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 1300 University Avenue, Room 1582, Madison, WI53706. Copyright 9 1999 by W.B. Saunders Company 1053-4296/99/0901-0008510.00/0",

year = "2008",

month = may,

language = "English",

volume = "22",

pages = "145--152",

journal = "Biotherapy",

issn = "0914-2223",

publisher = "Gan To Kagaku Ryohosha",

number = "3",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Tomotherapy

AU - Matsuo, Masayuki

AU - Miwa, Kazuhiro

AU - Shinoda, Jun

AU - Nishibori, Hironori

AU - Sakurai, Kouta

AU - Hayashi, Shinya

AU - Tanaka, Osamu

AU - Otakara, Kazuhiro

AU - Kanematsu, Masayuki

AU - Hoshi, Hiroaki

N1 - Funding Information: From the University of ldYisconsinM edical School, Madison, WI.. This work was supported in part by the National Institutes of Heallh (CA48902); General Electric Medical Systems; the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center," the Department of Medical Physics, the Department of Human Oncology, the Graduate School, and the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin; and Siemens Oncology Systems. T. R. Mackie aMP. Reckwerdt havef inancial interest in TomoT herapy, \[nc,w hich may participate in the commercialization of tomotherapy. Address reprint requests to T. Rockwell Mackie, PhD, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 1300 University Avenue, Room 1582, Madison, WI53706. Copyright 9 1999 by W.B. Saunders Company 1053-4296/99/0901-0008510.00/0

PY - 2008/5

Y1 - 2008/5

N2 - Helical tomotherapy is an integrated radiotherapy technique which combines IMRT capabilities with CT image guidance in a single piece of equipment. The combination of the hardware and a series of processes make tomotherapy an ideal machine for image guided adaptive radiotherapy (IGART). This is the first helical tomotherapy system in clinical use. It employs 51 arc segments per rotation and has 64 binary leaves. This unrivalled modulation capability is especially useful to maintain homogeneous dose distributions to the target while avoiding neighboring normal tissue structures. Some tomotherapy characteristics, processes and capabilities are described.

AB - Helical tomotherapy is an integrated radiotherapy technique which combines IMRT capabilities with CT image guidance in a single piece of equipment. The combination of the hardware and a series of processes make tomotherapy an ideal machine for image guided adaptive radiotherapy (IGART). This is the first helical tomotherapy system in clinical use. It employs 51 arc segments per rotation and has 64 binary leaves. This unrivalled modulation capability is especially useful to maintain homogeneous dose distributions to the target while avoiding neighboring normal tissue structures. Some tomotherapy characteristics, processes and capabilities are described.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/46449087577

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/46449087577#tab=citedBy

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:46449087577

SN - 0914-2223

VL - 22

SP - 145

EP - 152

JO - Biotherapy

JF - Biotherapy

IS - 3

ER -

Tomotherapy

Abstract

UN SDGs

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this