Open AccessUsing FFF beams to improve the therapeutic ratio of lung SBRT
Author(s) -
Oleg N Vassiliev,
Christine B. Peterson,
Joe Y. Chang,
Radhe Mohan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of radiotherapy in practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.159
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1467-1131
pISSN - 1460-3969
DOI - 10.1017/s1460396920000576
Subject(s) - truebeam , nuclear medicine , medicine , beam (structure) , lung , radiation treatment planning , radiation therapy , radiology , physics , optics , linear particle accelerator
To investigate the extent to which lung stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) treatment plans can be improved by replacing conventional flattening filter (FF) beams with flattening filter-free (FFF) beams.