| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S12210/01 |
| Title: |
Development of a practical technique to deliver intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) with jaws and a mask |
| Principal Investigator: |
Webb, Professor S |
| Other Investigators: |
|
| Researcher Co-Investigators: |
|
| Project Partners: |
|
| Department: |
Physics |
| Organisation: |
Institute of Cancer Research |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 2003 |
Ends: |
31 March 2007 |
Value (£): |
69,279
|
| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Image & Vision Computing |
Instrumentation Eng. & Dev. |
|
| EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications: |
|
| Related Grants: |
|
| Panel History: |
|
|
Summary on Grant Application Form |
|
Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is presently deliverable using either the commercial multileaf collimator (MLC) or the NOMOS MIMIC. This project will develop an IMRT technique for those Centres with a linac without an MLC and/or for a Co-60 machine (which has no MLC). The concept is already proven (Webb 2002a,b). This studentship will take on the next step of designing a practical system and constructing a prototype. Then the practical issues of incorporating the effects of scatter, attenuator transmission and matching penumbras will be studied. The effects of a finite focal sp size for Co-60 will be studied. The design will take into account the requirement to sequence the masks for each sequential field component in a practical time. This will involve considering several competing techniques to create the mask shapes and also the design of computer sequencing techniques including simulated annealing to solve the sequencing problem. Once constructed and with the problems of considering non-primary radiation solved, the prototype collimator will be used to deliver some practical IMRT fields from a commercial treatment-planning system.
|
|
Key Findings |
|
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
|
|
Potential use in non-academic contexts |
|
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
|
|
Impacts |
|
| Description |
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk |
| Summary |
|
| Date Materialised |
|
|
|
|
Sectors submitted by the Researcher |
|
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
|
| Project URL: |
|
| Further Information: |
|
| Organisation Website: |
http://www.icr.ac.uk |