IMRT Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

NUR 2392 Multidimensional Care I Tumor 1. Define (associate the 9 characteristics/features of each) Benign: • Specific morphology – resemble the tissues they originated from • A smaller nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio – similar to normal cells • Specific differentiated function – contributes to the body function • Tight adherence - bind closely together due to the production of fibronectin • No migration – do not invade other tissues • Orderl...

NUR 2392 Multidimensional Care II Exam 1 Blueprint Tumor 1. Define (associate the 9 characteristics/features of each) Benign: • Specific morphology – resemble the tissues they originated from • A smaller nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio – similar to normal cells • Specific differentiated function – contributes to the body function • Tight adherence - bind closely together due to the production of fibronectin • No migration – do not inv...

CHAPTER 1 General Radiation Therapy 1.1. Monte Carlo techniques should replace analytical methods for estimating dose distributionsin radiotherapy treatment planning Radhe Mohan and John Antolak Reproduced from Medical Physics, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 123–126, February 2001 ( 001&idtype=cvips&gifs=Yes) OVERVIEW Analytical models have traditionally been used to estimate dose distributions for treatment planning in radiation therapy. Recently, some physicists have suggested that Mo...

Chapter 1: Cancer: An Overview Washington: Washington and Leaver’s Principles and Practice of Radiation Therapy, 5th Edition MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Knowledge of cancer dates back to which of the following? a. 1600 BC Egypt b. 1600 AD England c. 400 BC Greece d. 1900 AD Germany ANS: A The first known observations of cancer date back to 1600 BC Egypt. 2. Which of the following is not a term for genes involved in the cancer process? a. Anti-oncogenes b. Oncogenes c. Proto-oncogenes...

samenvatting van de colleges van RT met korte herhaling van vorige jaar stof die handig zijn voor dit jaar

In dit document zit een samenvatting van alle literatuur die je moest lezen voor je zelfstudies van radiotherapie periode 1.

Samenvatting radiotherapie OP2.1, met onderwerpen: IMRT, therapeutische ratio, objectives, sequencing, contouring voor IMRT, bundelparameters, target dose vs weight, IMRT parameters, optimalisatie type, fysische aspecten, tongue and groove effect, EUD, step and shoot, VMAT, Rapid Arc, VMAT, tolerantiedosis, TCP, NTCP, ME-berekeningen, IGRT, EPID en CBCT, CTC AE, dosis volume effect relatie

Periode 5 radiotherapie