IGRT

Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) is a process of using various imaging technologies to locate a tumor target prior to a radiation therapy treatment. This process is aimed to improve the treatment accuracy so that the need for large target margins which have traditionally been used to compensate for errors in localization. As a result, the amount of healthy tissue exposed to radiation can be reduced, minimizing the incidence of side effects. At Duke, physicians applied advanced imaging techniques using CT, MRI, PET/CT, and SPECT to accurately delineate treatment target. Recently, Duke Physicians are able to use state-of-art in-room on-board imaging and cone-beam CT technologies to visualize the treatment tumor three-dimensionally prior to the delivery of radiation beam. IGRT is complementary to IMRT. IMRT is used to improve the radiation delivery precision and IGRT is used to improve the radiation delivery accuracy.

 

 

 

Other Treatment Options

• 3D/Conformal Radiation Therapy
• Eye Plaques
• High Dose Rate Brachytherapy
• Hyperthermia
• Intra-Operative Radiotherapy
• SRS
• Gated Therapy
• Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT)
• Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
• Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT)
• Prostate Seed Implant (PSI)
• Total-body irradiation (TBI)
• Total Skin Electron Beam (TSEB)
• Low-Dose Radiation (LDR) Brachytherapy