Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Nov 19, 2021
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The delineation of the gross tumor volume (GTV) is a critical step for radiation therapy treatment planning. The delineation procedure is typically performed manually which exposes two major issues: cost and reproducibility. D...
PURPOSE: Adaptive proton therapy (APT) of lung cancer patients requires frequent volumetric imaging of diagnostic quality. Cone-beam CT (CBCT) can provide these daily images, but x-ray scattering limits CBCT-image quality and hampers dose calculation...
Biomedical physics & engineering express
Oct 29, 2021
Kilovoltage cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT)-based image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) is used for daily delivery of radiation therapy, especially for stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), which imposes particularly high demands for setup...
OBJECTIVE: Dual energy CT (DECT) has been shown to estimate stopping power ratio (SPR) map with a higher accuracy than conventional single energy CT (SECT) by obtaining the energy dependence of photon interactions. This work presents a learning-based...
Cancer radiotherapie : journal de la Societe francaise de radiotherapie oncologique
Oct 26, 2021
The technological advancement heralded the arrival of precision radiotherapy (RT), thereby increasing the therapeutic ratio and decreasing the side effects from treatment. Contour of target volumes (TV) and organs at risk (OARs) in RT is a complicate...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Oct 21, 2021
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Large radiotherapy (RT) planning imaging datasets with consistently contoured cardiovascular structures are essential for robust cardiac radiotoxicity research in thoracic cancers. This study aims to develop and validate a hig...
OBJECTIVE: To develop high-quality synthetic CT (sCT) generation method from low-dose cone-beam CT (CBCT) images by using attention-guided generative adversarial networks (AGGAN) and apply these images to dose calculations in radiotherapy.
PURPOSE: To study the performance of a proposed deep learning-based autocontouring system in delineating organs at risk (OARs) in breast radiotherapy with a group of experts.
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Oct 8, 2021
Radiotherapy (RT) datasets can suffer from variations in annotation of organ at risk (OAR) and target structures. Annotation standards exist, but their description for prostate targets is limited. This restricts the use of such data for supervised ma...
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