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 …

Deformable image registration is a fundamental task in medical image processing. Among
its most important applications, one may cite: 1) multi-modality fusion, where information …

Task Group 101 of the AAPM has prepared this report for medical physicists, clinicians, and
therapists in order to outline the best practice guidelines for the external‐beam radiation …

In recent years remarkable progress has been made towards the understanding of proposed
hallmarks of cancer development and treatment. However with its increasing incidence, the …

The task group (TG) for quality assurance of medical accelerators was constituted by the
American Association of Physicists in Medicine's Science Council under the direction of the …

An iterative algorithm, based on recent work in compressive sensing, is developed for
volume image reconstruction from a circular cone-beam scan. The algorithm minimizes the …

Registration of pre-and intra-interventional data is one of the key technologies for image-
guided radiation therapy, radiosurgery, minimally invasive surgery, endoscopy, and …

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 …

Abstract At the UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands, we have constructed a prototype MRI
accelerator. The prototype is a modified 6 MV Elekta (Crawley, UK) accelerator next to a …

The number of imaging data sets has significantly increased during radiation treatment after
introducing a diverse range of advanced techniques into the field of radiation oncology. As a …