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Table 2 Tomotherapy® plan characteristics

From: Light and shadows of a new technique: is photon total-skin irradiation using helical IMRT feasible, less complex and as toxic as the electrons one?

Pat

Treatment session

Plan

Duration (min)

N. rotations

N. fractions

Number of PTV sub-volumes used in optimization

Number of region at risk used in optimization

#1

Upper Hemibody

#1 U1

22.6

45.3

3

56

33

#1 U2

22.6

43.7

12

56

25

Lower Hemibody

#1 L1

23.6

19

10

14

14

#1 L2

23.6

19

3

14

14

#2

Upper Hemibody

#2 U1

27.1

56

8

59

27

#2 U2

28.9

56

8

68

28

Lower Hemibody

#2 L1

40.0

50.1

3

45

35

#2 L2

40.0

50.1

13

46

34

#3

Upper Hemibody

#3 U1

27.2

52.7

3

61

45

#3 U2

27.2

52.7

13

74

56

Lower Hemibody

#3 L1

29.4

83.9

15

71

42