A Guide for Delineation of Lymph Nodal Clinical Target Volume in Radiation Therapy
A Guide for Delineation of Lymph Nodal Clinical Target Volume in Radiation Therapy - Heidelberg : Springer Berlin : 2008 - 173 Pages - DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-77044-2 .
Conformal radiotherapy offers the opportunity to enhance precise delivery of high dose radiation to the target volume while maintaining normal tissues doses at acceptable tolerance levels. This technique requires an exact definition of the treatment volumes: gross tumour volume (GTV), clinical target volume (CTV) and planning target volume (PTV). For this reason, it is important to have a very good knowledge of radiological anatomy and natural history of the disease. In particular, CTV is a tissue volume that contains the macroscopic disease with the surrounding areas suspected of subclinical.
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