August 17, 2009

Four original abstracts from the Knight Cancer Institute’s Department of Radiation Medicine have been selected for presentation at the  10th BIENNIAL ESTRO  CONFERENCE ON PHYSICS AND RADIATION TECHNOLOGY FOR CLINICAL RADIOTHERAPY, to be held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, at the end of September.

The presentations are listed below:

    1)    DOSIMETRIC ANALYSIS OF WEEKLY ADAPTIVE HEAD & NECK IMRT USING A DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION ALGORITHM
           Abstract no. 69 oral, p S28; Drs. Gagnon, Tanyi, Ku, McDonald, Holland, & Fuss

    2)    METABOLIC NSCLC RESPONSE TO SBRT
           Abstract no. 312 oral, p S116; Drs. Fuss, Le, Deffebach, & Thomas

    3)    STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIOTHERAPY AND HYPOFRACTIONATED RADIOTHERAPY FOR HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA:
           SHORT-TERM OUTCOMES AND LIVER TOLERANCE
           Abstract no. 388 poster, p S144; Drs. McDonald & Fuss

    4)    A COMPARISON BETWEEN ATLAS BASED AUTO-SEGMENTATION AND MANUAL CONTOURING IN 4D-IMAGE BASED TREATMENT
           PLANNING
           Abstract no. 435 poster, p S162; Drs. Laub, Kalpathy-Cramer, & Fuss