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. 2014 Jul 13;2014:860639. doi: 10.1155/2014/860639

Table 6.

Added dose and time per modality per fraction in pelvis IGRT [16, 5053].

Modality Dose at midbody (cGy) Time (min)∗ Available examples&
Ultrasound 0 2-3 BATCAM, Clarity
Plain kV 0.1–0.6 0.1–3 Cyberknife, ExacTrac
Plain MV 1–10 0.1–3 Various EPID and portal devices
kV CBCT 2-3 2–4 ARTISTE, OBI, XVI
MV CBCT 5–15 2-3 MVision
kV FBCT§ 0.8–2.8 15 CTVision, EXaCT
MV FBCT 1.5–3 2-3 Tomotherapy

FBCT: fan-beam computed tomography scanning.

*excludes image interpretation and action on observations.

&BATCAM, Best nomos, Pittsburgh, PA; Clarity and XVI, Elekta, Stockholm, Sweden; Cyberknife and Tomotherapy, Accuray, Sunnyvale, CA; EXaCT, ExacTrac, and OBI, Varian Medical Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA; ARTISTE, CTVision, and MVision, Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany.

For 2 incidences.

Full soft-tissue scan, 360°.

§involves couch rotation and CT translation because CT scanning is not on linac gantry.