Optimization in treatment planning of high dose‐rate brachytherapy—Review and analysis of mathematical models

B Morén, T Larsson, ÅC Tedgren - Medical Physics, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Treatment planning in high dose‐rate brachytherapy has traditionally been conducted with
manual forward planning, but inverse planning is today increasingly used in clinical practice …

[HTML][HTML] Dosimetric performance evaluation of the Halcyon treatment platform for stereotactic radiotherapy: A pooled study

Y Huang, Z Liu - Medicine, 2023‏ - journals.lww.com
With the advancement of radiotherapy equipment, stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) has been
increasingly used. Among the many radiotherapy devices, Halcyon shows promising …

Geometric and dosimetric evaluation of deep learning based auto‐segmentation for clinical target volume on breast cancer

Y Zhong, Y Guo, Y Fang, Z Wu… - Journal of Applied …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Background Recently, target auto‐segmentation techniques based on deep learning (DL)
have shown promising results. However, inaccurate target delineation will directly affect the …

Essentially unedited deep‐learning‐based OARs are suitable for rigorous oropharyngeal and laryngeal cancer treatment planning

J Koo, J Caudell, K Latifi, EG Moros… - Journal of Applied …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Stereotactic radiotherapy: An educational narrative review

AMH Khan, SFA Hashmi, B Li, F Shaukat… - Precision Radiation …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Stereotactic radiotherapy is a term collectively used to describe the radiation treatment
techniques that allow for the delivery of highly precise ionizing radiation. It is usually a high …

[HTML][HTML] A systematically compiled set of quantitative metrics to describe spatial characteristics of radiotherapy dose distributions and aid in treatment planning

LP Kaplan, SS Korreman - Physica Medica, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Purpose Many quantitative metrics have been proposed in literature for characterization of
spatial dose properties. The aim of this study is to work towards much-needed consensus in …

Three-dimensional IMRT QA of Monte Carlo and full scatter convolution algorithms based on 3D film dosimetry

M Molazadeh, M Robatjazi, G Geraily… - Radiation Physics and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
This study aimed to evaluate the dose distribution of the Monte Carlo (MC) code and TiGRT
treatment planning system (TPS) compared to experimental measurements. A thirteen-field …

Hybrid VMAT-3DCRT as breast cancer treatment improvement tool

C Voyant, M Pinpin, D Leschi, S Prapant, F Savigny… - Scientific Reports, 2023‏ - nature.com
Radiation therapy is an important tool in the treatment of breast cancer and can play a
crucial role in improving patient outcomes. For breast cancer, if the technique has been for a …

[HTML][HTML] A Visualization and Radiation Treatment Plan Quality Scoring Method for Triage in a Population-Based Context

AO Leone, ASR Mohamed, CD Fuller… - Advances in radiation …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Purpose Our purpose was to develop a clinically intuitive and easily understandable scoring
method using statistical metrics to visually determine the quality of a radiation treatment …

Dose conformity and falloff in single‐lesion intracranial SRS with DCA and VMAT methods

VY Kuperman, Y Altundal, S Kandel… - Journal of Applied …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Background Intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) aims at achieving highly conformal
dose distribution and, at the same time, attaining rapid dose falloff outside the treatment …