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Dose Prescription and Calculation

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Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy

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Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a promising treatment for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and provides a highly effective and safe therapy. As a result, SBRT has become one of the standard of care for delivering definitive treatment in medically inoperable patients. An important feature of modern SBRT are the supplementary techniques such as intensity modulated radiotherapy, volumetric modulated arc therapy, or flattened filter-free beams with image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) and dose calculation algorithms, such as convolution superposition, the Monte Carlo and the grid-based Boltzmann equation solver (GBBS) method. These techniques and dose calculation algorithms reduce the errors or inaccuracies in the dose distribution. Therefore, the impact of a calculation algorithm on the dose distribution accuracy is an important issue. In this chapter, the dose prescription of SBRT is reviewed and the influence of dose calculation algorithms is discussed.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Sapporo Medical University, S1 W16 Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-8543, Japan

    Kunihiko Tateoka, Yuichi Saito, Tadanori Abe, Takuya Nakazawa, Kensei Nakata & Koichi Sakata

  2. Radiation Therapy Research Institute, Social Medical Corporation Teishinkai, Sapporo, Japan

    Kunihiko Tateoka, Kazunori Fujimoto & Masato Hareyama

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    Yuichi Saito

  6. Department of Radiology, KKR Sapporo Medical Center, Sapporo, Japan

    Tadanori Abe

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Tateoka, K. et al. (2015). Dose Prescription and Calculation. In: Nagata, Y. (eds) Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54883-6_8

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