Computed tomography: state-of-the-art advancements in musculoskeletal imaging

HA Ibad, C de Cesar Netto, D Shakoor… - Investigative …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Although musculoskeletal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a dominant role in
characterizing abnormalities, novel computed tomography (CT) techniques have found an …

A modern review of the uncertainties in volumetric imaging of respiratory‐induced target motion in lung radiotherapy

I Vergalasova, J Cai - Medical physics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Radiotherapy has become a critical component for the treatment of all stages and types of
lung cancer, often times being the primary gateway to a cure. However, given that radiation …

Image guidance for FLASH radiotherapy

I El Naqa, BW Pogue, R Zhang, I Oraiqat… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract FLASH radiotherapy (FLASH‐RT) is an emerging ultra‐high dose (> 40 Gy/s)
delivery that promises to improve the therapeutic potential by limiting toxicities compared to …

Self‐contained deep learning‐based boosting of 4D cone‐beam CT reconstruction

F Madesta, T Sentker, T Gauer, R Werner - Medical physics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Four‐dimensional cone‐beam computed tomography (4D CBCT) imaging has
been suggested as a solution to account for interfraction motion variability of moving targets …

A deep unsupervised learning framework for the 4D CBCT artifact correction

G Dong, C Zhang, L Deng, Y Zhu, J Dai… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Four-dimensional cone-beam computed tomography (4D CBCT) has unique
advantages in moving target localization, tracking and therapeutic dose accumulation in …

Evaluation and clinical application of a commercially available iterative reconstruction algorithm for CBCT-based IGRT

W Mao, C Liu, SJ Gardner, F Siddiqui… - … in cancer research …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Purpose: We have quantitatively evaluated the image quality of a new commercially
available iterative cone-beam computed tomography reconstruction algorithm over standard …

Quantifying the accuracy of deformable image registration for cone‐beam computed tomography with a physical phantom

RY Wu, AY Liu, TD Williamson, J Yang… - Journal of applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Kilo‐voltage cone‐beam computed tomography (CBCT) is widely used for patient
alignment, contour propagation, and adaptive treatment planning in radiation therapy. In this …

Low dose CBCT reconstruction via prior contour based total variation (PCTV) regularization: a feasibility study

Y Chen, FF Yin, Y Zhang, Y Zhang… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Purpose: compressed sensing reconstruction using total variation (TV) tends to over-smooth
the edge information by uniformly penalizing the image gradient. The goal of this study is to …

[HTML][HTML] Simulation of a new respiratory phase sorting method for 4D-imaging using optical surface information towards precision radiotherapy

Z Dong, S Yu, A Szmul, J Wang, J Qi, H Wu, J Li… - Computers in Biology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Respiratory signal detection is critical for 4-dimensional (4D) imaging. This
study proposes and evaluates a novel phase sorting method using optical surface imaging …

Estimating 4D‐CBCT from prior information and extremely limited angle projections using structural PCA and weighted free‐form deformation for lung radiotherapy

W Harris, Y Zhang, FF Yin, L Ren - Medical physics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To investigate the feasibility of using structural‐based principal component analysis
(PCA) motion‐modeling and weighted free‐form deformation to estimate on‐board 4D …