In the era of conformal therapy and intensity-modulated therapy, there is an increased desire
to raise tumor dose to facilitate improved survival and decrease normal tissue dose to …

The efficacy of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) has been well demonstrated.
However, it presents unique challenges for accurate planning and delivery especially in the …

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 …

This document is the report of a task group of the AAPM and has been prepared primarily to
advise medical physicists involved in the external‐beam radiation therapy of patients with …

Stem cell therapies have enormous potential for treating many debilitating diseases,
including heart failure, stroke and traumatic brain injury. For maximal efficacy, these …

We propose a new scanning protocol for generating 4D‐CT image data sets influenced by
respiratory motion. A cine scanning protocol is used during data acquisition, and two …

Lung image registration can effectively describe the relative motion of lung tissues, thereby
helping to solve series problems in clinical applications. Since the lungs are soft and fairly …

We have developed a new technique to gate lung 18F-FDG PET images in synchronization
with the respiratory motion to reduce smearing due to breathing and improve quantitation of …

The development of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT)
scanners has allowed not only straightforward but also synergistic fusion of anatomical and …

This review describes the properties of available and emerging radiation detector and read-
out technologies and discusses how they may affect PET scanner performance. After a …