Journal of applied clinical medical physics
39611881
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 ...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
39704607
PURPOSE: Cardiotoxicity is one of the major concerns in breast cancer treatment, significantly affecting patient outcomes. To improve the likelihood of favorable outcomes for breast cancer survivors, it is essential to carefully balance the potential...
Physical and engineering sciences in medicine
39693039
This study examined the characteristics of the broad model (KBP) through a complete open-loop evaluation of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) plans for prostate cancer in 30 patients at two institutions. KBP, trained using 561 prostate cancer V...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
39647528
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Fast, high-quality deep learning (DL) prediction of patient-specific 3D dose distributions can enable instantaneous treatment planning (IP), in which the treating physician can evaluate the dose and approve the plan immediatel...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
39645201
PURPOSE: To develop and validate a prognostic and predictive model integrating deep learning MRI features and clinical information in patients with stage II nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) to identify patients with a low risk of progression for whom i...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
39641663
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The volunteer deep inspiration breath hold (vDIBH) technique is used to reduce the heart dose in left breast cancer radiotherapy. Many times, it is faced that despite rigorous exercise and training, not all patients get bene...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
39626092
PURPOSE: Optimal head-and-neck cancer (HNC) treatment planning requires accurate and feasible planning goals to meet dosimetric constraints and generate robust online adaptive treatment plans. A new x-ray-based adaptive radiotherapy (ART) treatment p...
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
39616630
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
39616629
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...