A practical technique to avoid the hippocampus in prophylactic cranial irradiation for lung cancer.

Marcel Van Herk; Zdenko van Kesteren; José Belderbos; Marcel van Herk; Agnieszka Olszewska; Emmy Lamers; Dirk De Ruysscher; Eugène Damen; Corine van Vliet-Vroegindeweij

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A practical technique to avoid the hippocampus in prophylactic cranial irradiation for lung cancer.

Marcel Van Herk, Zdenko van Kesteren, José Belderbos, Marcel van Herk, Agnieszka Olszewska, Emmy Lamers, Dirk De Ruysscher, Eugène Damen, Corine van Vliet-Vroegindeweij

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A practical technique is presented to deliver hippocampus avoiding prophylactic cranial irradiation for lung cancer patients, using two lateral fields. For a prescribed dose of 12×2.5 Gy, sparing of the hippocampi to 6.1 Gy was achieved with a V95% of the brain of 81.7%.

Original language	English
Journal	Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Volume	102
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2011.09.023
Publication status	Published - Feb 2012

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Van Herk, M., van Kesteren, Z., Belderbos, J., van Herk, M., Olszewska, A., Lamers, E., De Ruysscher, D., Damen, E., & van Vliet-Vroegindeweij, C. (2012). A practical technique to avoid the hippocampus in prophylactic cranial irradiation for lung cancer. Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, 102(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2011.09.023

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