Publications by authors named "Marc Delaperriere"

Background And Purpose: Risk management in radiotherapy is of high importance. There is not much data published on errors occurring in the treatment planning process of external beam techniques. The aim of this study was to investigate errors occurring during physics plan review in external beam radiotherapy.

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Purpose: One of the important developments in brachytherapy in recent years has been the clinical implementation of complex modern technical procedures. Today, 3D-imaging has become the standard procedure and it is used for contouring and precise position determination and reconstruction of used brachytherapy applicators. Treatment planning is performed on the basis of these imaging methods, followed by data transfer to the afterloading device.

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Introduction: Tumor hypoxia is a major cause for failure of therapy in patients with inoperable head and neck cancers.

Areas Covered: Various anti-hypoxic treatment strategies (e.g.

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