Techniques for adaptive prostate radiotherapy

N McVicar, IA Popescu, E Heath - Physica Medica, 2016 - Elsevier
Variations in the position and shape of the prostate make accurate setup and treatment
challenging. Adaptive radiation therapy (ART) techniques seek to alter the treatment plan, at …

A machine learning tool for re-planning and adaptive RT: a multicenter cohort investigation

G Guidi, N Maffei, B Meduri, E D'Angelo, GM Mistretta… - Physica Medica, 2016 - Elsevier
Purpose To predict patients who would benefit from adaptive radiotherapy (ART) and re-
planning intervention based on machine learning from anatomical and dosimetric variations …

AAPM task group report 306: quality control and assurance for tomotherapy: an update to task group report 148

Q Chen, Y Rong, JW Burmeister, EH Chao… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Since the publication of AAPM Task Group (TG) 148 on quality assurance (QA) for helical
tomotherapy, there have been many new developments on the tomotherapy platform …

A phantom based evaluation of the clinical imaging performance of electronic portal imaging devices

MK Tzomakas, V Peppa, A Alexiou, G Karakatsanis… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Purpose In this study an evaluation of the imaging performance of an electronic portal
imaging device (EPID) is presented. The evaluation performed employing the QC-3V image …

Generation of synthetic megavoltage CT for MRI‐only radiotherapy treatment planning using a 3D deep convolutional neural network

JE Scholey, A Rajagopal, EG Vasquez… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Megavoltage computed tomography (MVCT) has been implemented on many
radiotherapy treatment machines for on‐board anatomical visualization, localization, and …

Dosimetrically triggered adaptive radiotherapy for head and neck cancer: Considerations for the implementation of clinical protocols

AM Barragán‐Montero… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Defining dosimetric rules to automatically detect patients requiring adaptive
radiotherapy (ART) is not straightforward, and most centres perform ad‐hoc ART with no …

Improved accuracy of relative electron density and proton stop** power ratio through CycleGAN machine learning

J Scholey, L Vinas, V Kearney, S Yom… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Kilovoltage computed tomography (kVCT) is the cornerstone of radiotherapy
treatment planning for delineating tissues and towards dose calculation. For the former …

Validation of a method for “dose of the day” calculation in head-neck tomotherapy by using planning ct-to-MVCT deformable image registration

M Branchini, C Fiorino, I Dell'Oca, ML Belli, L Perna… - Physica Medica, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose The aim of this study was to test the feasibility and dosimetric accuracy of a method
that employs planning CT-to-MVCT deformable image registration (DIR) for calculation of …

Tolerance levels of mass density for adaptive helical tomotherapy using MVCT

S Tsunemine, S Ozawa, M Nakao, H Miura, A Saito… - 2023 - academic.oup.com
Daily dose distributions for adaptive radiotherapy (ART) using helical tomotherapy (HT) are
calculated using megavoltage computed tomography (MVCT). Generally, the MVCT number …

Expert system classifier for adaptive radiation therapy in prostate cancer

G Guidi, N Maffei, C Vecchi, G Gottardi… - Australasian Physical & …, 2017 - Springer
A classifier-based expert system was developed to compare delivered and planned
radiation therapy in prostate cancer patients. Its aim is to automatically identify patients that …