Workflow in Modern Radiotherapy:

CT Image QA, Treatment Planning, and Treatment Verification

Authors Name/s per 1st Affiliation (Author)

line 1 (of Affiliation): dept. name of organization
line 2-name of organization, acronyms acceptable
line 3-City, Country
line 4-e-mail address if desired

AbstractThis electronic document is a live template and

already defines the components of your paper [title, text, heads,
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Characters, or Math in Paper Title or Abstract. (Abstract)

Keywordscomponent; formatting; style; styling; insert (key

words) III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

A. Lap-laser-test
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1)
This template, modified in MS Word 2007 and saved as a B. Image QA
Word 97-2003 Document for the PC, provides authors with Spatial resolution
most of the formatti
HU Values
II. METHODS Low contrast visibility

A. Lap-laser-test Uniformity
Anatomical HU Values
B. Image QA
Spatial resolution C. Planning CT
HU Values
D. Treatment Planning
Low contrast visibility
Uniformity
Comparisons of some treatment plans techniques
Anatomical HU Values
Prostate case
C. Planning CT
E. Treatment Delivery and Dose Verification
D. Treatment Planning Phantom case
The thorax phantom (CIRS IMRT thorax phantom 00LFC) Patient case
was scanned and sent to the treatment planning system (TPS)
Monaco (Elekta). Three VMAT treatment plans were made to
deliver 60Gy to 50% of PTV in 12 fractions using a treatment The equations are an exception to the prescribed
planning system, with energy of 10MV. They were generated specifications of this template. You will need to determine
using one arc with arc length from 180 to close to 225. To whether or not your equation should be typed using either the
improve the results, different cost function for structures were Times New Roman or the Symbol font (please no other font).
modified. All plans were calculated with the Monte Carlo To create multileveled equations, it may be necessary to treat
algorithm with 1% uncertainty per calculation. Targets, the equation as a graphic and insert it into the text after your
patient, left and right lung, total lung, vertebra and spinal cord paper is styled.
were delineated and contoured. Number equations consecutively. Equation numbers, within
parentheses, are to position flush right, as in (1), using a right
For the prostate phantom tab stop. To make your equations more compact, you may use
the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate exponents.
Italicize Roman symbols for quantities and variables, but not IV. CONCLUSION
Greek symbols. Use a long dash rather than a hyphen for a After the text edit has been completed, the paper is ready
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they are part of a sentence, as in As command, and use the naming convention prescribed by
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Be sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined A. Authors and Affiliations
before or immediately following the equation. Use (1), not The template is designed so that author affiliations are not
Eq. (1) or equation (1), except at the beginning of a repeated each time for multiple authors of the same affiliation.
sentence: Equation (1) is ... Please keep your affiliations as succinct as possible (for
example, do not differentiate among departments of the same
F. Some Common Mistakes organization). This template was designed for two affiliations.
The word data is plural, not singular. 1) For author/s of only one affiliation (Heading 3): To
The subscript for the permeability of vacuum 0, and change the default, adjust the template as follows.
other common scientific constants, is zero with a) Selection (Heading 4): Highlight all author and
subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter o. affiliation lines.
In American English, commas, semi-/colons, periods, b) Change number of columns: Select the Columns icon
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quotation marks only when a complete thought or name Column from the selection palette.
is cited, such as a title or full quotation. When quotation c) Deletion: Delete the author and affiliation lines for
marks are used, instead of a bold or italic typeface, to the second affiliation.
highlight a word or phrase, punctuation should appear
outside of the quotation marks. A parenthetical phrase 2) For author/s of more than two affiliations: To change
or statement at the end of a sentence is punctuated the default, adjust the template as follows.
outside of the closing parenthesis (like this). (A a) Selection: Highlight all author and affiliation lines.
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parentheses.)
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The word alternatively is preferred to the word c) Highlight author and affiliation lines of affiliation 1
alternately (unless you really mean something that and copy this selection.
alternates).
d) Formatting: Insert one hard return immediately after
Do not use the word essentially to mean the last character of the last affiliation line. Then paste down
approximately or effectively. the copy of affiliation 1. Repeat as necessary for each
In your paper title, if the words that uses can additional affiliation.
accurately replace the word using, capitalize the u; if e) Reassign number of columns: Place your cursor to
not, keep using lower-cased. the right of the last character of the last affiliation line of an
Be aware of the different meanings of the homophones even numbered affiliation (e.g., if there are five affiliations,
affect and effect, complement and compliment, place your cursor at end of fourth affiliation). Drag the cursor
discreet and discrete, principal and principle. up to highlight all of the above author and affiliation lines. Go
to Column icon and select 2 Columns. If you have an odd
Do not confuse imply and infer. number of affiliations, the final affiliation will be centered on
The prefix non is not a word; it should be joined to the page; all previous will be in two columns.
the word it modifies, usually without a hyphen.
B. Identify the Headings
There is no period after the et in the Latin Headings, or heads, are organizational devices that guide
abbreviation et al. the reader through your paper. There are two types: component
The abbreviation i.e. means that is, and the heads and text heads.
abbreviation e.g. means for example. Component heads identify the different components of your
An excellent style manual for science writers is [7]. paper and are not topically subordinate to each other. Examples
include ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and REFERENCES, and for
these, the correct style to use is Heading 5. Use figure
caption for your Figure captions, and table head for your Magnetization (A ( m(1), not just A/m. Do not label axes
table title. Run-in heads, such as Abstract, will require you to with a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write
apply a style (in this case, italic) in addition to the style Temperature (K), not Temperature/K.
provided by the drop down menu to differentiate the head from
the text.
Text heads organize the topics on a relational, hierarchical REFERENCES
basis. For example, the paper title is the primary text head The template will number citations consecutively within
because all subsequent material relates and elaborates on this brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket [2].
one topic. If there are two or more sub-topics, the next level Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]do not use
head (uppercase Roman numerals) should be used and, Ref. [3] or reference [3] except at the beginning of a
conversely, if there are not at least two sub-topics, then no sentence: Reference [3] was the first ...
subheads should be introduced. Styles named Heading 1,
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actual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was
C. Figures and Tables cited. Do not put footnotes in the reference list. Use letters for
table footnotes.
1) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and
tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them in Unless there are six authors or more give all authors
the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span names; do not use et al.. Papers that have not been published,
even if they have been submitted for publication, should be
across both columns. Figure captions should be below the
cited as unpublished [4]. Papers that have been accepted for
figures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insert publication should be cited as in press [5]. Capitalize only
figures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use the the first word in a paper title, except for proper nouns and
abbreviation Fig. 1, even at the beginning of a sentence. element symbols.
TABLE I. TABLE STYLES For papers published in translation journals, please give the
English citation first, followed by the original foreign-language
We suggest that you use
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text box to insert a graphic
Head
citation [6].
(which
Head is ideally
Tablea column
300 dpi resolution TIFF
subhead or EPS Subhead
Subhead file with
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copyfonts embedded) because
More table copy a this method is somewhat more
stable than directly inserting a picture. [1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I.N. Sneddon, On certain integrals of
Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions, Phil.
To have non-visible rules on your frame, use the Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529-551, April 1955.
MSWord Format pull-down menu, select Text Box > (references)
Colors and Lines to choose No Fill and No Line. [2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed., vol.
a.
2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68-73.
Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote)
[3] I.S. Jacobs and C.P. Bean, Fine particles, thin films and exchange
b.
anisotropy, in Magnetism, vol. III, G.T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds. New
York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271-350.
Fig. 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption)
[4] K. Elissa, Title of paper if known, unpublished.
Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figure [5] R. Nicole, Title of paper with only first word capitalized, J. Name
Stand. Abbrev., in press.
labels. Use words rather than symbols or abbreviations when
writing Figure axis labels to avoid confusing the reader. As an [6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, Electron spectroscopy
studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate interface, IEEE
example, write the quantity Magnetization, or Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740-741, August 1987 [Digests 9th
Magnetization, M, not just M. If including units in the Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
label, present them within parentheses. Do not label axes only [7] M. Young, The Technical Writers Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
with units. In the example, write Magnetization (A/m) or University Science, 1989.