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Treatment Planning Facilitates Clinical Decision Making for Hyperthermia Treatments by H. P. Kok; J. van der Zee; F. Navarro Guirado; A. Bakker; N. R. Datta; S. Abdel-Rahman; M. Schmidt; P. Wust; J. Crezee is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Treatment quality is important in clinical hyperthermia. Guideline-based treatment protocols are used to determine system settings and treatment strategies to ensure effective tumor heating and prevent unwanted treatment-limiting normal tissue hot spots. Realizing both these goals can prove challenging using generic guideline-based and operator-dependent treatment strategies. Hyperthermia treatment planning (HTP) can be very useful to support treatment strategies. Although HTP is increasingly integrated into the standard clinical workflow, active clinical application is still limited to a small number of hyperthermia centers and should be further stimulated. This paper aims to serve as a practical guide, demonstrating how HTP can be applied in clinical decision making for both superficial and locoregional hyperthermia treatments. Seven problems that occur in daily clinical practice are described and we show how HTP can enhance insight to formulate an adequate treatment strategy. Examples use representative commercially available hyperthermia devices and cover all stages during the clinical workflow. Problems include selecting adequate phase settings, heating ability analysis, hot s

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Author

H. P. Kok; J. van der Zee; F. Navarro Guirado; A. Bakker; N. R. Datta; S. Abdel-Rahman; M. Schmidt; P. Wust; J. Crezee

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)