Simplified intensity-modulated arc therapy for dose escalated prostate cancer radiotherapy

G Bauman, E Gete, JZ Chen, E Wong - Medical Dosimetry, 2004 - Elsevier
Simplified intensity-modulated arc therapy (SIMAT) employs forward planned, conformal,
and avoidance arc combinations with dynamic multileaf collimation (MLC) as a simpler …

Early experience with MR‐guided adaptive radiotherapy using a 1.5 T MR‐Linac: first 6 months of operation using adapt to shape workflow

J de Leon, D Crawford, Z Moutrie… - Journal of Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction The magnetic resonance linear accelerator (MRL) offers improved soft tissue
visualization to guide daily adaptive radiotherapy treatment. This manuscript aims to report …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of dosimetric variation between prostate IMRT and VMAT due to patient's weight loss: Patient and phantom study

JCL Chow, R Jiang - Reports of Practical Oncology & Radiotherapy, 2013 - Elsevier
Aim This study compared the dosimetric impact between prostate IMRT and VMAT due to
patient's weight loss. Background Dosimetric variation due to change of patient's body …

Planning magnetic resonance imaging for prostate cancer intensity‐modulated radiation therapy: Impact on target volumes, radiotherapy dose and androgen …

PJ Horsley, NJ Aherne, GV Edwards… - Asia‐Pacific Journal …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are increasingly utilized for radiotherapy
planning to contour the primary tumors of patients undergoing intensity‐modulated radiation …

Predicting objective function weights from patient anatomy in prostate IMRT treatment planning

T Lee, M Hammad, TCY Chan, T Craig… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Intensity‐modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatment planning typically
combines multiple criteria into a single objective function by taking a weighted sum. The …

Rectal dose reduction with IMRT for prostate radiotherapy

N Hardcastle, A Davies, K Foo, A Miller… - Journal of medical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Dose escalation in radiation therapy has led to increased control rates with some clinical
trial evidence that rectal toxicity may be reduced when using intensity‐modulated …

Dosimetric evaluation of MRI-based treatment planning for prostate cancer

L Chen, RA Price, TB Nguyen, L Wang… - Physics in medicine …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the dosimetric accuracy of MRI-based treatment
planning for prostate cancer using a commercial radiotherapy treatment planning system …

[HTML][HTML] Gating has a negligible impact on dose delivered in MRI-guided online adaptive radiotherapy of prostate cancer

I Wahlstedt, N Andratschke, CP Behrens… - Radiotherapy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background and purpose MR-guided radiotherapy (MRgRT) allows real-time beam-gating
to compensate for intra-fractional target position variations. This study investigates the …

MRI-Guided Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer: Seeing is Believing

RL Westley, LF Valle, AC Tree, AU Kishan - Seminars in Radiation …, 2024 - Elsevier
The advent of MRI guided radiotherapy (MRIgRT) offers enormous promise in the treatment
of prostate cancer. The MR-linac offers men the opportunity to receive daily MR imaging to …

Converting from CT-to MRI-only-based target definition in radiotherapy of localized prostate cancer

H Visapää, J Collan, A Beule, M Kouri… - Strahlentherapie und …, 2015 - search.proquest.com
Purpose To investigate the conversion of prostate cancer radiotherapy (RT) target definition
from CT-based planning into an MRI-only-based planning procedure. Materials and …