A BRIEF HISTORY OF IMAT:
STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF IMAT:
“Although arc therapy can be traced back to the dawn of the 20th century, arc therapy involving dynamic field shaping using a multileaf collimator was first described by Takahashi in 1965″
” He described a method of rotational therapy, which we now
referred to as conformal arc therapy – the beam aperture shaped by a multiple leaf
collimator (MLC) dynamically varies to match the beam’s-eye-view of the target.”
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“1982, Brahme et al solved an integral equation for a hypothetical target wrapped around a critical structure and treated with arc therapy [2]. “
PIONEERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF IMAT:
Intensity modulated arc therapy (IMAT) was first described by Yu in 1995.
REFERENCES:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3473700/
https://www.aapm.org/meetings/amos2/pdf/41-10351-37694-806.pdf