A review on medical imaging synthesis using deep learning and its clinical applications

T Wang, Y Lei, Y Fu, JF Wynne… - Journal of applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviewed the deep learning‐based studies for medical imaging synthesis and its
clinical application. Specifically, we summarized the recent developments of deep learning …

Proton versus photon radiation therapy: A clinical review

Z Chen, MM Dominello, MC Joiner… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
While proton radiation therapy offers substantially better dose distribution characteristics
than photon radiation therapy in certain clinical applications, data demonstrating a …

Principles and applications of multienergy CT: Report of AAPM Task Group 291

CH McCollough, K Boedeker, D Cody, X Duan… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In x‐ray computed tomography (CT), materials with different elemental compositions can
have identical CT number values, depending on the mass density of each material and the …

[HTML][HTML] Reduction of clinical safety margins in proton therapy enabled by the clinical implementation of dual-energy CT for direct stopping-power prediction

N Peters, P Wohlfahrt, C Hofmann, C Möhler… - Radiotherapy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose To quantifiy the range uncertainty in proton treatment planning using dual-energy
computed tomography (DECT) for a direct stopping-power prediction (DirectSPR) algorithm …

Status and innovations in pre-treatment CT imaging for proton therapy

P Wohlfahrt, C Richter - The British journal of radiology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Pre-treatment CT imaging is a topic of growing importance in particle therapy. Improvements
in the accuracy of stopping-power prediction are demanded to allow for a dose conformality …

On the molecular relationship between Hounsfield Unit (HU), mass density, and electron density in computed tomography (CT)

A Sudhyadhom - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Accurate determination of physical/mass and electron densities are critical to accurate
spatial and dosimetric delivery of radiotherapy for photon and charged particles. In this …

Dual-and multi-energy CT for particle stopping-power estimation: current state, challenges and potential

M Yang, P Wohlfahrt, C Shen… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Range uncertainty has been a key factor preventing particle radiotherapy from reaching its
full physical potential. One of the main contributing sources is the uncertainty in estimating …

Improving radiation physics, tumor visualisation, and treatment quantification in radiotherapy with spectral or dual‐energy CT

MF Kruis - Journal of applied clinical medical physics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decade, spectral or dual‐energy CT has gained relevancy, especially in
oncological radiology. Nonetheless, its use in the radiotherapy (RT) clinic remains limited …

Dual-energy CT based proton range prediction in head and pelvic tumor patients

P Wohlfahrt, C Möhler, K Stützer, S Greilich… - Radiotherapy and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background and purpose To reduce range uncertainty in particle therapy, an accurate
computation of stopping-power ratios (SPRs) based on computed tomography (CT) is …

[HTML][HTML] Inter-centre variability of CT-based stopping-power prediction in particle therapy: survey-based evaluation

VT Taasti, C Bäumer, CV Dahlgren, AJ Deisher… - Physics and imaging in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Stopping-power ratios (SPRs) are used in particle therapy to
calculate particle range in patients. The heuristic CT-to-SPR conversion (Hounsfield Look …