By Jack L. Cronenwett MD, K. Wayne Johnston MD FRCSC

Published in organization with the Society for Vascular Surgery, Rutherford’s Vascular surgical procedure presents state-of-the-art updates on all features of vascular health and wellbeing care. Extensively revised through many new authors to fulfill the wishes of surgeons, interventionalists, and vascular drugs experts, this clinical reference ebook accommodates medical, endovascular and surgical treatment, in addition to diagnostic ideas, determination making and primary vascular biology.

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The cluster profile on the left has four clusters and no in-field minima, every cluster being a single segment. The cluster profile on the right has two in-field minima, seven clusters leading to nine segments. ) was worked out over 10 years ago (Boyer 2003; see also reviews by Webb 1997, 2000d). 9). The sequencer combines features of clustering and smoothing to segment the IMBs. The outcome is that the fluence increments in the delivery are nonuniform. The sequencer is included in the iteration stage that actually generates the IMBs and is not applied a posteriori.

Many papers have detailed the dosimetric performances of each. Galvin (1999) and Bortfeld et al (1999) have provided useful reviews with tables of MLC properties. 1). The different designs and positioning of the MLCs inevitably lead to performance differences. However, it was concluded that no single MLC was superior and that user choice is necessarily not just determined by radiation characteristics. 3). The position of the MLC varies with respect to target and isocentre. The Elekta and Varian MLCs have rounded leaf ends but move on a plane.

4). These are known as ‘hard constraints’ because they cannot be violated. Historically, the determination of the leaf patterns was separated from the inverse planning (because the planning techniques were developed before methods for IMRT delivery were available). Hence, there was a period in which substantial ‘fixes’ were made to account for the physics of the delivery through collimation that was not perfect and with pieces of metal Copyright © 2005 IOP Publishing Ltd. 3. A Varian accelerator and its MLC used for field shaping and IMRT (from Varian website).

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