Practical and technical key challenges in head and neck adaptive radiotherapy: The GORTEC point of view

N Delaby, A Barateau, S Chiavassa, MC Biston… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Anatomical variations occur during head and neck (H&N) radiotherapy (RT) treatment.
These variations may result in underdosage to the target volume or overdosage to the organ …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances progress in radiotherapy for breast cancer after breast-conserving surgery: a review

Y Wang, J Shen, P Gu, Z Wang - Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Adjuvant radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery has become an integral part of the
treatment of breast cancer. In recent years, the development of radiotherapy technology has …

[HTML][HTML] DAART: a deep learning platform for deeply accelerated adaptive radiation therapy for lung cancer

H Hooshangnejad, Q Chen, X Feng, R Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Purpose The study aimed to implement a novel, deeply accelerated adaptive radiation
therapy (DAART) approach for lung cancer radiotherapy (RT). Lung cancer is the most …

[HTML][HTML] Complete patient exposure during paediatric brain cancer treatment for photon and proton therapy techniques including imaging procedures

M De Saint-Hubert, G Boissonnat… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background In radiotherapy, especially when treating children, minimising exposure of
healthy tissue can prevent the development of adverse outcomes, including second cancers …

[HTML][HTML] A Longitudinal Study of Individual Radiation Responses in Pediatric Patients Treated with Proton and Photon Radiotherapy, and Interventional Cardiology …

MG Andreassi, N Haddy, M Harms-Ringdahl… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Health Effects of Cardiac Fluoroscopy and Modern Radiotherapy (photon and proton) in
Pediatrics (HARMONIC) is a five-year project funded by the European Commission that …

Feasibility of CycleGAN enhanced low dose CBCT imaging for prostate radiotherapy dose calculation

Y Chan, M Li, K Parodi, C Belka… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Daily cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) imaging during the course of fractionated
radiotherapy treatment can enable online adaptive radiotherapy but also expose patients to …

A generalizable new figure of merit for dose optimization in dual energy cone beam CT scanning protocols

C Li, L Zhou, J Deng, H Wu, R Wang… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. This study proposes and evaluates a new figure of merit (FOMn) for dose
optimization of Dual-energy cone-beam CT (DE-CBCT) scanning protocols based on size …

Assessment of organ and size-specific effective doses from cone beam CT (CBCT) in image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) based on body mass index (BMI)

A Abuhaimed, CJ Martin - Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The ability of radiation therapy to deliver radiation doses accurately to tumour targets, while
sparing normal tissues, has advanced remarkably over recent decades. A development that …

Quality and safety considerations in image guided radiation therapy: An ASTRO Safety White Paper update

XS Qi, K Albuquerque, S Bailey, S Dawes… - Practical Radiation …, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose This updated report on image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) is part of a series of
consensus-based white papers previously published by the American Society for Radiation …

[HTML][HTML] Setup Uncertainty of Pediatric Brain Tumor Patients Receiving Proton Therapy: A Prospective Study

J Becksfort, J Uh, A Saunders, JA Byrd, HM Worrall… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Proton therapy enables the delivery of a high radiation dose to tumors
while sparing surrounding normal tissues. Inaccurate patient positioning may lead to …