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Volume Modulated Arc Therapy

Known as: VMAT 
Radiation therapy delivered to the whole volume of target tissue by a single rotation of the linear accelerator gantry.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Outcomes of Single Fraction Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy for Lung Metastases
Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SABR) has been previously investigated as an alternative to thoracic surgery in patients with… 
Review
2013
Review
2013
Automatic in vivo portal dosimetry of all treatments
At our institution EPID (electronic portal imaging device) dosimetry is routinely applied to perform in vivo dose verification of… 
2013
2013
Evaluation of treatment plan quality of IMRT and VMAT with and without flattening filter using Pareto optimal fronts.
2013
2013
Trajectory modulated prone breast irradiation: a LINAC-based technique combining intensity modulated delivery and motion of the couch.
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
EPID dosimetry for pretreatment quality assurance with two commercial systems
This study compares the EPID dosimetry algorithms of two commercial systems for pretreatment QA, and analyzes dosimetric… 
2012
2012
A real time dose monitoring and dose reconstruction tool for patient specific VMAT QA and delivery.
PURPOSE To develop a real time dose monitoring and dose reconstruction tool to identify and quantify sources of errors during… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Quality assurance of volumetric modulated arc therapy: evaluation and comparison of different dosimetric systems.
PURPOSE To compare and evaluate different dosimetric techniques and devices for the QA of VMAT plans created by two treatment… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Initial dosimetric evaluation of SmartArc – a novel VMAT treatment planning module implemented in a multi‐vendor delivery chain
We performed an initial dosimetric evaluation of SmartArc – a novel VMAT planning module for the Philips Pinnacle treatment… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Experimental validation of a commercial 3D dose verification system for intensity-modulated arc therapies
We validate the dosimetric performance of COMPASS®, a novel 3D quality assurance system for verification of volumetric-modulated… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Quality assurance of volumetric modulated arc therapy using Elekta Synergy
Purpose. Recently, Elekta has supplied volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) in which multi-leaf collimator (MLC) shape, jaw… 
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