Radiation Therapy Room Types

• Image Guided Radiation Therapy
• IMRT
• Radiosurgery
• TBI

Image Guided Radiation Therapy
Conventional Therapy rooms require the minimum amount of interior space and wall thicknesses.

Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy
The secondary wall barriers are generally 25%-30% thicker than conventional therapy walls.

Radiosurgery
Rooms that are planned for Stereotactic procedures may allow for a reduction in primary width barriers to as little as two feet.

Total Body Irradiation Therapy
TBI treatment rooms are generally 5'-0" (1.5 m) larger
between primary barriers

External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT) or conventional radiation therapy. Typical energies range from 6 to 25 MeV.

• Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) – Real-time CT imaging is used to make real-time adjustments in the beam, increasing accuracy and decreasing collateral damage to healthy cells.
  
  
• Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) – CT imaging is used in treatment planning to regulate the intensity and shape of the radiation beam such that it conforms to the size and shape of the tumor.
  
  
• Radiosurgery (including Stereotactic Radiosurgery or SRS and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy or SBRT). Radiosurgery is more often referred to by brand name, such as Axesse, Cyberknife, Gamma Knife, Novalis, Primatom, Synergy, X-Knife, TomoTherapy and Trilogy
  
  
• Total Body Irradiation (TBI) – typically used to prepare the body for transplantation of bone marrow or stem cells