BACKGROUND: Radiotherapy (RT) is an important treatment modality for patients with brain malignancies. Traditionally, computed tomography (CT) images are used for RT treatment planning whereas magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images are used for tumo...
BACKGROUND: Total marrow irradiation (TMI) and total marrow and lymphoid irradiation (TMLI) have the advantages. However, delineating target lesions according to TMI and TMLI plans is labor-intensive and time-consuming. In addition, although the deli...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Mar 4, 2024
PURPOSE: Predicting recurrence following stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for non-small cell lung cancer provides important information for the feasibility of the individualized radiotherapy and allows to select the appropriate treatment strateg...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Jan 23, 2024
PURPOSE: Artificial intelligence (AI) based commercial software can be used to automatically delineate organs at risk (OAR), with potential for efficiency savings in the radiotherapy treatment planning pathway, and reduction of inter- and intra-obser...
. Deep learning models, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), can take full dose comparison images as input and have shown promising results for error identification during treatment. Clinically, complex scenarios should be considered, with t...
BACKGROUND: Dose distributions calculated with electronic portal imaging device (EPID)-based in vivo dosimetry (EIVD) differ from planned dose distributions due to generic and plan-specific deviations. Generic deviations are characteristic to a class...
. Automated treatment planning today is focussed on non-exact, two-step procedures. Firstly, dose-volume histograms (DVHs) or 3D dose distributions are predicted from the patient anatomy. Secondly, these are converted in multi-leaf collimator (MLC) a...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Nov 9, 2023
Quality of organ at risk (OAR) autosegmentation is often judged by concordance metrics against the human-generated gold standard. However, the ultimate goal is the ability to use unedited autosegmented OARs in treatment planning, while maintaining th...
Medical dosimetry : official journal of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists
Oct 31, 2023
The aim of this study is to create a single institution-based machine learning model for a dose prediction generation tool for post-operative carcinoma of the tongue cases prospectively. Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) plans for 20 patients w...
BACKGROUND: Adaptive proton therapy workflows rely on accurate imaging throughout the treatment course. Our centre currently utilizes weekly repeat CTs (rCTs) for treatment monitoring and plan adaptations. However, deep learning-based methods have re...