World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering September 7 - 12, 2009 Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/I Radiation Oncology (Paperback, 2009)

Development of New Radioactive Seeds Tm-170 for Brachytherapy.- Implications of Histogram Analysis in Radiation Therapy (HART) Software.- Evaluation of dosimetric characteristics of a grid block fabricated for Mega-voltage grid therapy purposes.- Monte Carlo Investigation of Stereotactic Radiosurgery of Spinal Metastases.- Impact of Kilo-Voltage Cone Beam Computed Tomography on Image-Guided Radiotherapy of Prostate Cancer.- Cell Deformation by Dielectrophoretic Fields.- Particle-beam radiation therapy for the tumor of pharyngeal region.- A New Synchrotron Radiotherapy Technique with Future Clinical Potential: Minibeams Radiation Therapy.- Analysis of combined HDR Brachytherapy and external beam radiotherapy in the treatment of carcinoma of cervix.- Motion detection system with three USB cameras and an active search algorithm for stereotactic radiosurgery.- An Investigation of the concomitant doses from Cone Beam CT and CT simulation in Radiotherapy.- Treatment Planning for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT).- The 21st Birthday Party for intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT); 21 years from 1988-2009; From concept to practical reality.- A Dedicated Irradiation Facility for Radiotherapy Dosimetry.- A beam model applicable to small fields: development and validation.- MR based treatment workflow for external radiotherapy of prostate cancer.- Computational Simulation of Tumour Hypoxia as applied to Radiation Therapy Applications.- Investigation of the Recovery Behaviour as Depending on Parotid Gland Irradiation Dose.- Quality Assurance Program for Radiosurgery at Clinicas Hospital: Results of Implementation.- Application of MRI normoxic polymer gel dosimetry for the evaluation of radiation dose distribution in external beam radiotherapy.- On the Risks of a Constant RBE for Proton Treatment Planning.- Comparison of Dose Distribution in Brain Tumor Conformal Radiotherapy Using CT and CBCT.- Effect of the Same Plan on Doses to Patients during Radiotherapy with Nasopharyngeal Carinoma.- Optimization of Dose Distribution with Multi-leaf Collimator Using Field-in-Field Technique for Radiotherapy of Hodgkin's Lymphoma.- On the performance of monitor chambers to measure the output of medical linear accelerators for high-precision dosimetric investigations.- Calorimetric Determination of Absorbed Dose to Water for an 192Ir HDR Brachytherapy Source in Near-Field Geometry.- The first national IMRT dosimetry inter comparison in Switzerland using a thorax phantom with inhomogeneities.- Calibration of 125I brachytherapy sources in terms of reference air kerma rate.- A Mathematical Aid Decision Tool for RT Planning.- Accuracy of GafChromic EBT Film as Dose Meter in Radiotherapy QA.- Low-Dose Cone-Beam CT Imaging for Radiotherapy.- The realization and application on image pasting for Cone-beam Computed Tomography.- In vivo dosimetry using MOSFET and TLD for Tomotherapy.- Dose audit using a glass dosimeter for Radiation Therapy Facilities in East-Asian Countries.- Editing range compensator for sparing normal tissue in treatment planning of carbon-ion radiotherapy.- A new device for the measurement of the absorbed dose to water for low energy x-ray sources used in brachytherapy.- Comparison of PET Concepts for Dose Delivery Monitoring of Particle Therapy.- Image-guided stereotactic body radiation therapy using a low-Z target imaging beam line and a high dose rate unflattened beam.- Conformity of brain lesions treated with radiosurgery and fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy.- Comparing pencil-beam generated and Monte Carlo generated dose-to-water and dose-to-tissue distributions for proton therapy patients.- In Vivo Evaluation of Photofrin II Radiosentisitivity for the Treatment of Adenocarcinoma Tumors in Balb-C Mice using Brachytherapy.- Extend Distance Treatment for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy of Lung Cancer.- Monte Carlo dosimetry with PENELOPE code of the VariSource VS2000 192Ir high dose rate brachytherapy source.- E