FLASH radiotherapy (RT), microbeam RT (MRT) and minibeam RT (MBRT) are novel RT techniques that have been shown to reduce normal tissue complication probabilities, by modulating the dose distributions through different parameters in space and time. T...
An MRI-only workflow requires synthetic computed tomography (sCT) images to enable dose calculation. This study evaluated the dosimetric and patient positioning accuracy of deep learning-generated sCT for liver radiotherapy.sCT images were generated ...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Apr 5, 2025
BACKGROUND: The use of deep learning-based auto-contouring algorithms in various treatment planning services is increasingly common. There is a notable deficit of commercially or publicly available models trained on large or diverse datasets containi...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Apr 3, 2025
PURPOSE: Volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) treatment planning allows a compromise between a sufficient coverage of the planning target volume (PTV) and a simultaneous sparing of organs-at-risk (OARs). Particularly in the case of lung tumors, de...
BACKGROUND: As auto-segmentation tools become integral to radiotherapy, more commercial products emerge. However, they may not always suit our needs. One notable example is the use of adult-trained commercial software for the contouring of organs at ...
Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
Apr 1, 2025
PURPOSE: The generalization ability of deep learning-based automatic segmentation techniques for lung cancer in practical clinical applications remains under-validated. We reported an investigation that validated a robust semi-supervised conditional ...
Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) has become an essential tool in head and neck cancer (HNC) radiotherapy (RT) treatment delivery. Automatic segmentation of the organs at risk (OARs) on CBCT can trigger and accelerate treatment replanning but is s...
This study developed and evaluated an automatic segmentation model based on the Mamba framework (AM-UNet) for rapid and precise delineation of high-risk clinical target volume (HRCTV) and organs at risk (OARs) in cervical cancer brachytherapy. Using ...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Mar 19, 2025
PURPOSE: Balancing quality and efficiency has been a challenge for online adaptive therapy. Most systems start the online re-optimization with the original planning goals. While some systems allow planners to modify the planning goals, achieving a hi...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Mar 14, 2025
PURPOSE: Training deep learning dose prediction models for the latest cutting-edge radiotherapy techniques, such as AI-based nodal radiotherapy (AINRT) and Daily Adaptive AI-based nodal radiotherapy (DA-AINRT), is challenging due to limited data. Thi...
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