BACKGROUND: Effective breast cancer treatment planning requires balancing tumor control while minimizing radiation exposure to healthy tissues. Choosing between intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and three-dimensional conformal radiation th...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Dec 1, 2024
PURPOSE: This study aimed to investigate the dosimetric impact of deep-learning-based auto-contouring for clinical target volume (CTV) and organs at risk (OARs) delineation in prostate cancer radiotherapy planning. Additionally, we compared the geome...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Dec 1, 2024
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of the automated RapidPlan in assessing plan quality and to explore how beam complexity affects the mechanical performance of volumetric modulated arc therapy for head and neck cancers.
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Nov 29, 2024
PURPOSE: Synthetic computed tomography (sCT)-algorithms, which generate computed tomography images from magnetic resonance imaging data, are becoming part of the clinical radiotherapy workflow. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate and ...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Nov 29, 2024
BACKGROUND: Lung cancer poses a significant global health challenge. Adaptive radiotherapy (ART) addresses uncertainties due to lung tumor dynamics. We aimed to investigate a comprehensively and systematically validated offline ART regimen with high ...
BACKGROUND: Accurate calculation of lung cancer dose using the Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm in CyberKnife (CK) is essential for precise planning. We aim to employ deep learning to directly predict the 3D dose distribution calculated by the MC algorithm...
INTRODUCTION: The delineation of organs-at-risk and lymph node areas is a crucial step in radiotherapy, but it is time-consuming and associated with substantial user-dependent variability in contouring. Artificial intelligence (AI) appears to be the ...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Nov 15, 2024
BACKGROUND: Formulating a clinically acceptable plan within the time-constrained clinical setting of brachytherapy poses challenges to clinicians. Deep learning based dose prediction methods have shown favorable solutions for enhancing efficiency, bu...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Nov 14, 2024
OBJECTIVE: We investigated the feasibility of deep learning-based ultra-low dose kV-fan-beam computed tomography (kV-FBCT) image enhancement algorithm for clinical application in abdominal and pelvic tumor radiotherapy.
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