International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
May 20, 2022
OBJECTIVES: Fast volumetric ultrasound presents an interesting modality for continuous and real-time intra-fractional target tracking in radiation therapy of lesions in the abdomen. However, the placement of the ultrasound probe close to the target s...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
May 17, 2022
PURPOSE: The objective of this study was to fabricate an anthropomorphic multimodality pelvic phantom to evaluate a deep-learning-based synthetic computed tomography (CT) algorithm for magnetic resonance (MR)-only radiotherapy.
BACKGROUND: Dose deposition characteristics of proton radiation can be advantageous over photons. Proton treatment planning, however, poses additional challenges for the planners. Proton therapy is usually delivered with only a small number of beam a...
Next generation online and real-time adaptive radiotherapy workflows require precise particle transport simulations in sub-second times, which is unfeasible with current analytical pencil beam algorithms (PBA) or Monte Carlo (MC) methods. We present ...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Mar 26, 2022
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Geometric information such as distance information is essential for dose calculations in radiotherapy. However, state-of-the-art dose prediction methods use only binary masks without distance information. This study aims to de...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Mar 25, 2022
PURPOSE: Dose computation using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images is inaccurate for the purpose of adaptive treatment planning. The main goal of this study is to assess the dosimetric accuracy of synthetic computed tomography (CT)-based cal...
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of a lung stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) treatment plan with the target of a newly predicted internal target volume (ITV) and the feasibility of its clinical application. ITV was ...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Mar 9, 2022
PURPOSE: To develop a 3D-Unet dose prediction model to predict the three-dimensional dose distribution of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for cervical cancer and test the dose prediction performance of the model in endometrial cancer to explo...
PURPOSE: This study aims to develop a deep learning method that skips the time-consuming inverse optimization process for automatic generation of machine-deliverable intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) plans.
BACKGROUND: Automated catheter localization for ultrasound guided high-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy faces challenges relating to imaging noise and artifacts. To date, catheter reconstruction during the clinical procedure is performed manually. De...