A review of dose calculation approaches with cone beam CT in photon and proton therapy

V Giacometti, AR Hounsell, CK McGarry - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and purpose The use of cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) for
performing dose calculations in radiation therapy has been widely investigated as it could …

Cone-beam CT image quality improvement using Cycle-Deblur consistent adversarial networks (Cycle-Deblur GAN) for chest CT imaging in breast cancer patients

HJ Tien, HC Yang, PW Shueng, JC Chen - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) integrated with a linear accelerator is widely
used to increase the accuracy of radiotherapy and plays an important role in image-guided …

Feasibility of CBCT-based dose calculation: comparative analysis of HU adjustment techniques

I Fotina, J Hopfgartner, M Stock, T Steininger… - Radiotherapy and …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The aim of this work was to compare the accuracy of
different HU adjustments for CBCT-based dose calculation. METHODS AND MATERIALS …

An evaluation of techniques for dose calculation on cone beam computed tomography

V Giacometti, RB King, CE Agnew… - The British journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Objective: To assess the accuracy and efficiency of four different techniques, thus
determining the optimum method for recalculating dose on cone beam CT (CBCT) images …

Adaptive radiotherapy of lung cancer patients with pleural effusion or atelectasis

DS Møller, AA Khalil, MM Knap, L Hoffmann - Radiotherapy and oncology, 2014 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Changes in lung density due to atelectasis, pleural effusion and
pneumonia/pneumonitis are observed in lung cancer patients. These changes may be an …

Adaptive radiotherapy for head and neck cancer reduces the requirement for rescans during treatment due to spinal cord dose

L Belshaw, CE Agnew, DM Irvine, KP Rooney… - Radiation …, 2019 - Springer
Background Patients treated with radiotherapy for head and neck (H&N) cancer often
experience anatomical changes. The potential compromises to Planning Target Volume …

Cone beam computed tomography: the challenges and strategies in its application for dose accumulation

VC Kong, A Marshall, HB Chan - Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation …, 2016 - Elsevier
Online image guidance using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) has greatly
improved the geometric precision of radiotherapy. Changes in anatomy are common during …

Assessment of CBCT–based synthetic CT generation accuracy for adaptive radiotherapy planning

CJ O'Hara, D Bird, B Al‐Qaisieh… - Journal of applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Purpose Cone‐beam CT (CBCT)–based synthetic CT (sCT) dose calculation has
the potential to make the adaptive radiotherapy (ART) pathway more efficient while …

Accuracy of dose calculations on kV cone beam CT images of lung cancer patients

M De Smet, D Schuring, S Nijsten… - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop a clinically feasible method for dose calculations on cone beam CT
(CBCT) images of two different vendors, and to determine the accuracy of these dose …

Hounsfield unit recovery in clinical cone beam CT images of the thorax acquired for image guided radiation therapy

RS Thing, U Bernchou, E Mainegra-Hing… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
A comprehensive artefact correction method for clinical cone beam CT (CBCT) images
acquired for image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) on a commercial system is presented …