Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Aug 28, 2024
Radiotherapy aims to deliver a prescribed dose to the tumor while sparing neighboring organs at risk (OARs). Increasingly complex treatment techniques such as volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), stereotactic body...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Aug 26, 2024
PURPOSE: To develop a non-coplanar cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) image reconstruction method using projections within a limited angle range for non-coplanar radiotherapy.
A robotic needle implant device for MR-guided high-dose-rate (HDR) prostate brachytherapy was developed. This study aimed to assess the feasibility and spatial accuracy of HDR brachytherapy using the robotic device, for a single intraprostatic target...
Dose prediction is a crucial step in automated radiotherapy planning for liver cancer. Several deep learning-based approaches for dose prediction have been proposed to enhance the design efficiency and quality of radiotherapy plan. However, these app...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Aug 17, 2024
INTRODUCTION: New radiotherapy machines such as Halcyon are capable of delivering dose-rate of 600 monitor-units per minute, allowing large numbers of patients treated per day. However, patient-specific quality assurance (QA) is still required, which...
Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al]
Aug 13, 2024
Radiation therapy (RT) is a highly digitized field relying heavily on computational methods and, as such, has a high affinity for the automation potential afforded by modern artificial intelligence (AI). This is particularly relevant where imaging is...
International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics
Aug 13, 2024
PURPOSE: Conventional normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) models for patients with head and neck cancer are typically based on single-value variables, which, for radiation-induced xerostomia, are baseline xerostomia and mean salivary gland ...
This study explores the use of neural networks (NNs) as surrogate models for Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations in predicting the dose-averaged linear energy transfer (LET) of protons in proton-beam therapy based on the planned dose distribution and patien...
Cancer radiotherapie : journal de la Societe francaise de radiotherapie oncologique
Aug 12, 2024
Over the last decades, the use of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning in medical fields has skyrocketed. Well known for their results in segmentation, motion management and posttreatment outcome tasks, investigations of machin...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Aug 9, 2024
BACKGROUND: Radiotherapy has been crucial in prostate cancer treatment. However, manual segmentation is labor intensive and highly variable among radiation oncologists. In this study, a deep learning based automated contouring model is constructed fo...