Cancer therapy with accelerated charged particles is one of the most valuable biomedical
applications of nuclear physics. The technology has vastly evolved in the past 50 years, the …

Simple Summary Image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) overcomes geographic changeduring
treatment and avoids underdose of the target, which provides better treatment outcomes for …

Radiation therapy is fundamental in the treatment of cancer. Imaging has always played a
central role in radiation oncology. Integrating imaging technology into irradiation devices …

Background Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) of central lung tumors with photon
or proton therapy has a risk of increased toxicity. Treatment planning studies comparing …

Purpose Head and neck cancer (HNC) treatment results in morbidity impacting quality of life
(QOL) in survivorship. This analysis evaluated changes in oral health-related QOL (OH …

In recent years, proton therapy centres have begun to shift from conventional 2D-kV imaging
to volumetric imaging systems for image guided proton therapy (IGPT). This is likely due to …

Background and purpose Physiological motion impacts the dose delivered to tumours and
vital organs in external beam radiotherapy and particularly in particle therapy. The excellent …

Objective. Investigating the aspects of proton beam delivery to track organ motion with pencil
beam scanning therapy. Considering current systems as a reference, specify requirements …

Objective. Magnetic resonance (MR) is an innovative technology for online image guidance
in conventional radiotherapy and is also starting to be considered for proton therapy as well …

This chapter examines the advances and perspectives of the applications of artificial
intelligence (AI) in the classification of magnetic resonance (MR) images. It focuses on the …