Disease diagnosis in smart healthcare: Innovation, technologies and applications

KT Chui, W Alhalabi, SSH Pang, PO Pablos, RW Liu… - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
To promote sustainable development, the smart city implies a global vision that merges
artificial intelligence, big data, decision making, information and communication technology …

Recent developments in non-coplanar radiotherapy

G Smyth, PM Evans, JC Bamber… - The British journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
This paper gives an overview of recent developments in non-coplanar intensity modulated
radiotherapy (IMRT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT). Modern linear …

[HTML][HTML] Viability of Noncoplanar VMAT for liver SBRT compared with coplanar VMAT and beam orientation optimized 4π IMRT

K Woods, D Nguyen, A Tran, YY Victoria, M Cao… - Advances in radiation …, 2016 - Elsevier
Purpose The 4π static noncoplanar radiation therapy delivery technique has demonstrated
better normal tissue sparing and dose conformity than the clinically used volumetric …

Microstructural injury to corpus callosum and intrahemispheric white matter tracts correlate with attention and processing speed decline after brain radiation

MP Huynh-Le, MD Tibbs, R Karunamuni… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose The corpus callosum (CC) and intrahemispheric white matter tracts (IHWM)
subserve critical aspects of attention and processing speed. We analyzed imaging …

A novel optimization framework for VMAT with dynamic gantry couch rotation

Q Lyu, YY Victoria, D Ruan, R Neph… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Existing volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) optimization using coplanar arcs is highly
efficient but usually dosimetrically inferior to intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) …

Part 1: optimization and evaluation of dynamic trajectory radiotherapy

MK Fix, D Frei, W Volken, D Terribilini… - Medical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Although volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) is a well‐accepted treatment
technique in radiotherapy using a coplanar delivery approach, VMAT might be further …

Enabling non-isocentric dynamic trajectory radiotherapy by integration of dynamic table translations

G Guyer, S Mueller, C Koechli, D Frei… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. The purpose of this study is to develop a treatment planning process (TPP) for
non-isocentric dynamic trajectory radiotherapy (DTRT) using dynamic gantry rotation …

[HTML][HTML] Non-coplanar trajectories to improve organ at risk sparing in volumetric modulated arc therapy for primary brain tumors

G Smyth, PM Evans, JC Bamber, HC Mandeville… - Radiotherapy and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background and purpose To evaluate non-coplanar volumetric modulated arc radiotherapy
(VMAT) trajectories for organ at risk (OAR) sparing in primary brain tumor radiotherapy …

Part 2: Dynamic mixed beam radiotherapy (DYMBER): photon dynamic trajectories combined with modulated electron beams

S Mueller, P Manser, W Volken, D Frei… - Medical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The purpose of this study was to develop a treatment technique for dynamic mixed
beam radiotherapy (DYMBER) utilizing increased degrees of freedom (DoF) of a …

Optimizing highly noncoplanar VMAT trajectories: the NoVo method

M Langhans, J Unkelbach, T Bortfeld… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce a new method called NoVo (Noncoplanar VMAT Optimization) to produce
volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) treatment plans with noncoplanar trajectories …