Carotid sparing hypofractionated tomotherapy in early glottic cancers: Refining image guided IMRT to improve morbidity
Author(s) -
Sourav Guha,
Sanjoy Chatterjee,
Sriram Prasath,
Indranil Mallick,
R. Achari
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.119349
Subject(s) - tomotherapy , medicine , nuclear medicine , radiation therapy , larynx , radiology , surgery
Carotid artery damage has been reported secondary to radiotherapy. We report the feasibility of implementing hypofractionated laryngeal irradiation using carotid sparing tomotherapy (HT) and analyze the image guidance (IG) policy.
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