Medical physics challenges in clinical MR-guided radiotherapy

C Kurz, G Buizza, G Landry, F Kamp, M Rabe… - Radiation …, 2020 - Springer
The integration of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for guidance in external beam
radiotherapy has faced significant research and development efforts in recent years. The …

GPU computing in medical physics: A review

G Pratx, L **ng - Medical physics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The graphics processing unit (GPU) has emerged as a competitive platform for computing
massively parallel problems. Many computing applications in medical physics can be …

ICRU report 98, stochastic nature of radiation interactions: microdosimetry

LA Braby, V Conte, M Dingfelder… - Journal of the …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
ICRU Report 98, Stochastic Nature of Radiation Interactions: Microdosimetry - LA Braby, V.
Conte, M. Dingfelder, DT Goodhead, LS Pinsky, AB Rosenfeld, T. Sato, AJ Waker, S. Guatelli …

[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 …

Towards fast online intrafraction replanning for free-breathing stereotactic body radiation therapy with the MR-linac

C Kontaxis, GH Bol, B Stemkens… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The hybrid MRI-radiotherapy machines, like the MR-linac (Elekta AB, Stockholm, Sweden)
installed at the UMC Utrecht (Utrecht, The Netherlands), will be able to provide real-time …

GPU-based fast Monte Carlo dose calculation for proton therapy

X Jia, J Schümann, H Paganetti… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Accurate radiation dose calculation is essential for successful proton radiotherapy. Monte
Carlo (MC) simulation is considered to be the most accurate method. However, the long …

[HTML][HTML] Daily adaptive radiotherapy for patients with prostate cancer using a high field MR-linac: Initial clinical experiences and assessment of delivered doses …

A Dunlop, A Mitchell, A Tree, H Barnes, L Bower… - Clinical and translational …, 2020 - Elsevier
Introduction MR-guided adapted radiotherapy (MRgART) using a high field MR-linac has
recently become available. We report the estimated delivered fractional dose of the first five …

GPU-based fast Monte Carlo simulation for radiotherapy dose calculation

X Jia, X Gu, YJ Graves, M Folkerts… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is commonly considered to be the most accurate dose
calculation method in radiotherapy. However, its efficiency still requires improvement for …

GPU-based high-performance computing for radiation therapy

X Jia, P Ziegenhein, SB Jiang - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent developments in radiotherapy therapy demand high computation powers to solve
challenging problems in a timely fashion in a clinical environment. The graphics processing …

[HTML][HTML] MRI-guided lung SBRT: present and future developments

MJ Menten, A Wetscherek, MF Fast - Physica Medica, 2017 - Elsevier
Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is rapidly becoming an alternative to surgery for the
treatment of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer patients. Lung SBRT is administered in a …