Monday 25 September 2017

Dia do Interno Radioncologia (Portuguese) (Radiation Oncology Resident's Day)




  • Venue: October 20, 2017 - Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, EPE, Lisbon, Portugal:

Monday 11 September 2017

ITV (internal target volume)

It consists of an internal margin added to the CTV to compensate for internal physiologic movement and variations in size, shape, and position of the CTV [1]. It's an expansion of CTV for internal (e.g. breathing) movement [2].
Bibliographic references:
[1] Reiff J. E. (2013). C. In: L. Brady and T. Yaeger, ed., Encyclopedia of Radiation Oncology, 1st ed. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp.343-399.
[2] Balter J. Target definition (margin selection) for radiotherapy (IMRT). aapmorg. 2017. Available at: https://www.aapm.org/meetings/03SS/Presentations/Balter.pdf. Accessed September 11, 2017.