Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Apr 29, 2025
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The most common adverse event following spine stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is vertebral compression fracture (VCF). There is interest in the development of patient-specific tools that can predict those at high risk of...
PURPOSE: Chordomas and chondrosarcomas are rare, aggressive spinal bone tumors with distinct origins, biological behavior, and treatment challenges, primarily due to their resistance to conventional chemotherapy and radiation. This study aimed to com...
BACKGROUND: The extension of onboard cone-beam CT (CBCT) imaging for real-time treatment planning is constrained by limitations in image quality. Synthetic CT (sCT) generation using deep learning provides a potential solution to these limitations.
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Mar 27, 2025
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: A machine learning (ML) model was recently developed to predict massive intraoperative blood loss (>2,500 mL) during posterior decompressive surgery for spinal metastasis that performed well on external validation within the same ...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Mar 26, 2025
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: When treating spinal metastases in a palliative setting, maintaining or enhancing quality of life (QoL) is the primary therapeutic objective. Clinicians tailor their treatment strategy by weighing the QoL benefits against expected...
Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society
Mar 13, 2025
BACKGROUND: Accurate segmentation of pelvic and sacral tumors (PSTs) in multi-sequence magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for effective treatment and surgical planning.
International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics
Mar 9, 2025
PURPOSE: Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT)-based online adaptive radiation therapy is carried out using a synthetic CT (sCT) created through deformable registration between the patient-specific fan-beam CT, fan-beam computed tomography (FBCT), and...
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: To generate virtual T1 contrast-enhanced (T1CE) sequences from plain spinal MRI sequences using the denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) and to compare its performance against one baseline model pix2pix and three a...
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