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 …

Automation in intensity modulated radiotherapy treatment planning—a review of recent innovations

M Hussein, BJM Heijmen, D Verellen… - The British journal of …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Radiotherapy treatment planning of complex radiotherapy techniques, such as intensity
modulated radiotherapy and volumetric modulated arc therapy, is a resource-intensive …

[HTML][HTML] Patterns of practice for adaptive and real-time radiation therapy (POP-ART RT) part II: Offline and online plan adaption for interfractional changes

J Bertholet, G Anastasi, D Noble, A Bel… - Radiotherapy and …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose The POP-ART RT study aims to determine to what extent and how
intrafractional real-time respiratory motion management (RRMM), and plan adaptation for …

Multi-criteria optimization and decision-making in radiotherapy

S Breedveld, D Craft, R Van Haveren… - European Journal of …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Radiotherapy (radiation therapy) is one of the main treatments for cancer. The aim is to
deliver a prescribed radiation dose to the tumor, while kee** the unavoidable dose to the …

Confirmation of thermal dose as a predictor of local control in cervical carcinoma patients treated with state-of-the-art radiation therapy and hyperthermia

M Kroesen, HT Mulder, JML van Holthe… - Radiotherapy and …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Background Addition of deep hyperthermia results in improved local control (LC) and overall
survival (OS) compared to radiotherapy alone in patients with cervical carcinoma …

Adaptive radiotherapy in the management of cervical cancer: review of strategies and clinical implementation

CE Shelley, LH Barraclough, CL Nelder, SJ Otter… - Clinical Oncology, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The complex and varied motion of the cervix–uterus target during external beam
radiotherapy (EBRT) underscores the clinical benefits afforded by adaptive radiotherapy …

Artificial intelligence in radiation therapy

Y Fu, H Zhang, ED Morris… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Artificial intelligence (AI) has great potential to transform the clinical workflow of
radiotherapy. Since the introduction of deep neural networks (DNNs), many AI-based …

The technological basis for adaptive ion beam therapy at MedAustron: status and outlook

M Stock, D Georg, A Ableitinger, A Zechner… - … für Medizinische Physik, 2018‏ - Elsevier
The ratio of patients who need a treatment adaptation due to anatomical variations at least
once during the treatment course is significantly higher in light ion beam therapy (LIBT) than …

[HTML][HTML] Pre-clinical validation of a novel system for fully-automated treatment planning

R Bijman, AW Sharfo, L Rossi, S Breedveld… - Radiotherapy and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Introduction Many approaches for automated treatment planning (autoplanning) have been
proposed and investigated. Autoplanning can enhance plan quality compared to …

[HTML][HTML] Validation of fully automated robust multicriterial treatment planning for head and neck cancer impt

M Huiskes, W Kong, M Oud, K Crama, C Rasch… - International Journal of …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Purpose Our purpose was to compare robust intensity modulated proton therapy (IMPT)
plans, automatically generated with wish-list–based multicriterial optimization as …