Adaptive radiotherapy for anatomical changes

JJ Sonke, M Aznar, C Rasch - Seminars in radiation oncology, 2019 - Elsevier
The anatomy of cancer patients changes between radiation treatment planning and delivery
as well as over the course of radiotherapy. Adaptive radiotherapy (ART) aims to deliver …

Adaptive proton therapy

H Paganetti, P Botas, GC Sharp… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Radiation therapy treatments are typically planned based on a single image set, assuming
that the patient's anatomy and its position relative to the delivery system remains constant …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive radiotherapy: the Elekta Unity MR-linac concept

D Winkel, GH Bol, PS Kroon, B van Asselen… - Clinical and translational …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background and purpose The promise of the MR-linac is that one can visualize all
anatomical changes during the course of radiotherapy and hence adapt the treatment plan …

Quality assurance for image‐guided radiation therapy utilizing CT‐based technologies: a report of the AAPM TG‐179

JP Bissonnette, PA Balter, L Dong, KM Langen… - Medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Commercial CT‐based image‐guided radiotherapy (IGRT) systems allow
widespread management of geometric variations in patient setup and internal organ motion …

Online adaptive radiation therapy

S Lim-Reinders, BM Keller, S Al-Ward, A Sahgal… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The current paradigm of radiation therapy has the treatment planned on a snapshot dataset
of the patient's anatomy taken at the time of simulation. Throughout the course of treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical implementation of magnetic resonance imaging guided adaptive radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer

SU Tetar, AME Bruynzeel, FJ Lagerwaard… - Physics and imaging in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Magnetic resonance-guided radiation therapy (MRgRT) has
recently become available in clinical practice and is expected to expand significantly in …

[HTML][HTML] 4D-MRI driven MR-guided online adaptive radiotherapy for abdominal stereotactic body radiation therapy on a high field MR-Linac: Implementation and initial …

ES Paulson, E Ahunbay, X Chen, NJ Mickevicius… - Clinical and translational …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and purpose In this report, we describe our implementation and initial clinical
experience using 4D-MRI driven MR-guided online adaptive radiotherapy (MRgOART) for …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetic resonance imaging-guided adaptive radiation therapy: a “game changer” for prostate treatment?

AU Pathmanathan, NJ van As, LGW Kerkmeijer… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Radiation therapy to the prostate involves increasingly sophisticated delivery techniques
and changing fractionation schedules. With a low estimated α/β ratio, a larger dose per …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive radiotherapy enabled by MRI guidance

A Hunt, VN Hansen, U Oelfke, S Nill, S Hafeez - Clinical Oncology, 2018 - Elsevier
Adaptive radiotherapy (ART) strategies systematically monitor variations in target and
neighbouring structures to inform treatment-plan modification during radiotherapy. This is …

Dosimetric benefit of MR-guided online adaptive radiotherapy in different tumor entities: liver, lung, abdominal lymph nodes, pancreas and prostate

L Nierer, C Eze, V da Silva Mendes, J Braun, P Thum… - Radiation …, 2022 - Springer
Background Hybrid magnetic resonance (MR)-Linac systems have recently been introduced
into clinical practice. The systems allow online adaption of the treatment plan with the aim of …