Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
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Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
Learn how Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) more precisely shapes radiation beams to the size and contour of a tumor. This helps avoid healthy tissue and treat difficult-to-reach tumors.
Our cancer doctors use intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), a state-of-the-art radiation therapy, to treat difficult-to-reach tumors with new levels of accuracy. With IMRT, we’re able to deliver higher radiation doses to tumors virtually anywhere in the body, while sparing more of the surrounding healthy tissue.
IMRT uses a powerful, advanced computer program that plans a precise dose of radiation in three dimensions, before every treatment. Three-dimensional planning allows us to simultaneously treat multiple tumors with different doses of radiation, while minimizing radiation exposure to healthy tissue and organs.
There are several ways IMRT differs from conventional radiation therapy:
- Employs a powerful, advanced software to plan a precise dose of radiation, based on tumor size, shape and location.
- Delivers radiation in sculpted doses that match the exact 3D geometrical shape of the tumor, including concave and complex shapes.
- Adjusts the intensity of radiation beams across the treatment area as needed with laser accuracy.
Because of its greater degree of accuracy, IMRT may be a treatment option if you have reached the maximum allowable dose of conventional radiation therapy and have a recurrent tumor.
Learn how we deliver IMRT with Varian’s Trilogy™ and the TomoTherapy® HI-ART system.
Radiation Therapy
- 3D Conformal Radiation
- Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI)
- BrainLAB SRS
- Calypso® 4D Localization System™
- Contura™
- Cyberknife (see Stereotactic Radiosurgery)
- Deep Tissue Hyperthermia
- External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT)
- Gamma Knife (see Stereotactic Radiosurgery)
- High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy
- Hyperthermia (also see Local Hyperthermia, Deep Tissue Hyperthermia)
- Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
- Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)
- Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT)
- LightSpeed RT
- Local Hyperthermia
- MammoSite® RTS
- Radioactive Protectants
- Rapid Arc™
- Respiratory Gating
- Radioiodine Ablation (see Systemic Radiation Therapy)
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS)
- Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)
- Systemic Radiation Therapy
- TheraSphere®
- TomoTherapy® HI-ART
- Total Body Irradiation (TBI)
- Total Marrow Irradiation (TMI)
- Trilogy™
