Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated

"Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY that combines several intensity-modulated beams to provide improved dose homogeneity and highly conformal dose distributions.

Descriptor ID	D050397
MeSH Number(s)	E02.815.635.700.700 L01.313.500.750.100.710.600.550.700
Concept/Terms	Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapies Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy Radiotherapies, Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy, Intensity Modulated Volumetric-Modulated Arc Therapy Volumetric-Modulated Arc Therapy Arc Therapies, Volumetric-Modulated Arc Therapy, Volumetric-Modulated Therapies, Volumetric-Modulated Arc Therapy, Volumetric-Modulated Arc Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Volumetric-Modulated Arc Therapies Intensity-Modulated Arc Therapy Arc Therapies, Intensity-Modulated Arc Therapy, Intensity-Modulated Intensity Modulated Arc Therapy Intensity-Modulated Arc Therapies Therapies, Intensity-Modulated Arc Therapy, Intensity-Modulated Arc Helical Tomotherapy Helical Tomotherapy Helical Tomotherapies Tomotherapies, Helical Tomotherapy, Helical

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated".

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Therapeutics [E02]
Radiotherapy [E02.815]
Radiotherapy, Computer-Assisted [E02.815.635]
Radiotherapy, Conformal [E02.815.635.700]
Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated [E02.815.635.700.700]
Information Science [L]
Information Science [L01]
Informatics [L01.313]
Medical Informatics [L01.313.500]
Medical Informatics Applications [L01.313.500.750]
Decision Making, Computer-Assisted [L01.313.500.750.100]
Therapy, Computer-Assisted [L01.313.500.750.100.710]
Radiotherapy, Computer-Assisted [L01.313.500.750.100.710.600]
Radiotherapy, Conformal [L01.313.500.750.100.710.600.550]
Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated [L01.313.500.750.100.710.600.550.700]

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Bar chart showing 96 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2018

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2006	2	0	2
2007	1	0	1
2008	1	0	1
2009	1	2	3
2010	1	3	4
2011	2	2	4
2012	6	1	7
2013	4	2	6
2014	2	1	3
2015	4	4	8
2016	3	5	8
2017	3	2	5
2018	7	2	9
2019	4	1	5
2020	7	0	7
2021	6	1	7
2022	5	0	5
2023	2	0	2
2024	6	0	6
2025	3	0	3

Below are the most recent publications written about "Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated" by people in Profiles.

Gray T, Liu CW, Ahmed S, Kolano AM, Donaghue J, Koyfman S, Woody N, Campbell SR, Farr JB, Xia P. Assessing proton plans with three different beam delivery systems versus photon plans for head and neck tumors. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2025 May; 26(5):e70013.

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Gray T, Liu CW, Kolano AM, Donaghue J, Stephans K, Videtic G, Xia P, Farr J. Assessing proton plans with 3 different beam lines vs photon plans for early-stage lung cancer. Med Dosim. 2025 Autumn; 50(3):209-215.

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Machtay M, Torres-Saavedra PA, Thorstad W, Nguyen-T?n PF, Siu LL, Holsinger FC, El-Naggar A, Chung C, Cmelak A, Burtness B, Bednarz G, Quon H, Breen SL, Gwede CK, Dicker AP, Yao M, Jordan RC, Dorth J, Lee N, Chan JW, Dunlap N, Bar-Ad V, Stokes WA, Chakravarti A, Sher D, Rao S, Harris J, Yom SS, Le QT. Postoperative Radiotherapy ? Cetuximab for Intermediate-Risk Head and Neck Cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2025 04 20; 43(12):1474-1487.

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Xu Q, Fan J, Vinogradskiy Y, Chawla AK, Kubicek G, Yang H, Huynh K, LaCouture T, Grimm J, Nie W. Feasibility of patient-specific quality assurance (PSQA) for real-time robotic stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) based on tumor motion traces. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2024 Aug; 25(8):e14352.

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Desai V, Labby Z, Culberson W, DeWerd L, Kry S. Multi-institution single geometry plan complexity characteristics based on IROC phantoms. Med Phys. 2024 Aug; 51(8):5693-5707.

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Khan AJ, Marine CB, Flynn J, Tyagi N, Zhang Z, Thor M, Gelblum D, Mehrara B, McCormick B, Powell SN, Ho AY. A Phase II Study Evaluating the Effect of Intensity Modulated Postmastectomy Radiation Therapy on Implant Failure Rates in Breast Cancer Patients With Immediate, 2-Stage Implant Reconstruction With an MRI Imaging Correlative Substudy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2024 10 01; 120(2):482-495.

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Blumenfeld P, Arbit E, Den R, Salhab A, Falick Michaeli T, Wygoda M, Hillman Y, Pfeffer RM, Fang M, Misrati Y, Weizman N, Feldman J, Popovtzer A. Real world clinical experience using daily intelligence-assisted online adaptive radiotherapy for head and neck cancer. Radiat Oncol. 2024 Mar 30; 19(1):43.

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Xu Q, Vinogradskiy Y, Grimm J, Nie W, Dupre P, Chawla AK, Bajaj G, Yang H, LaCouture T, Fan J. Evaluation of a novel patient-specific quality assurance phantom for robotic single-isocentre, multiple-target stereotactic radiosurgery, and stereotactic radiotherapy. Br J Radiol. 2024 Feb 28; 97(1155):660-667.

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Xu Y, Jin W, Butkus M, De Ornelas M, Cyriac J, Studenski MT, Padgett K, Simpson G, Samuels S, Samuels M, Dogan N. Cone beam CT-based adaptive intensity modulated proton therapy assessment using automated planning for head-and-neck cancer. Radiat Oncol. 2024 Jan 23; 19(1):13.

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Niazi M, Russial O, Cappelli L, Miller R, Chen Y, Vakhnenko Y, Liu H, Shi W. Efficacy of scalp-sparing volumetric-modulated arc therapy approach in reducing scalp radiation dose for patients with glioblastoma: a cross-sectional study. Chin Clin Oncol. 2023 Aug; 12(4):36.

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