Joseph Panetta, PhD

Adaptive radiotherapy (ART) is designed to improve target coverage and normal tissue sparing compared with non-ART treatment. While in prostate SBRT differences between adaptive and non-adaptive plans are often modest, certain fractions exhibit clinically sig...

Organ at risk dose limits as a function of varying fractionation scheme are conveniently given in the well-known “Timmerman tables”. Application of these limits in the re-treatment environment using the LQ approach (EQD2) can lead to overestimation of availab...