A.P. Brown

TL;DR: The updated information on tolerance of normal tissues of concern in the protocols of this contract, based on available data, is presented, with a special emphasis on partial volume effects.

TL;DR: This is a report on numerical scoring techniques developed for the evaluation of treatment plans as part of a four-institution study of the role of 3-D planning in high energy external beam photon therapy.

TL;DR: An assessment was made of the relative merits of proton beam therapy and of X ray treatment for patients with early stage and locally advanced carcinoma of the nasopharynx and it is suggested that the use of protons for the major part of treatment results in a more even distribution of dose to the tumor.

TL;DR: It was demonstrated that multi-field conformal plans could achieve good tumor dose coverage, while at the same time reducing normal tissue doses, compared to standard treatment planning techniques.

TL;DR: A multi-institutional study to develop three-dimensional (3-D) radiotherapy plans for Hodgkin's disease showed wide variations in their assessment of the plans, possible reasons for which are addressed in this paper.