A review on 4D cone‐beam CT (4D‐CBCT) in radiation therapy: Technical advances and clinical applications

Y Zhang, Z Jiang, Y Zhang, L Ren - Medical physics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Cone‐beam CT (CBCT) is the most commonly used onboard imaging technique for target
localization in radiation therapy. Conventional 3D CBCT acquires x‐ray cone‐beam …

[PDF][PDF] Imaging strategies in proton therapy for thoracic tumors: a mini review

C Algranati, L Strigari - Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Proton beam therapy (PBT) is often more attractive for its high gradient dose distributions
than other treatment modalities with external photon beams. However, in thoracic lesions …

A novel tool for motion-related dose inaccuracies reduction in 99mTc-MAA SPECT/CT images for SIRT planning

M Santoro, G Della Gala, G Paolani, F Zagni, S Strolin… - Physica Medica, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction In Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT), 90 Y is administered to
primary/secondary hepatic lesions. An accurate pre-treatment planning using 99m Tc-MAA …

[HTML][HTML] Surface guidance compared with ultrasound-based monitoring and diaphragm position in cone-beam computed tomography during abdominal stereotactic …

L Kaestner, L Streb, S Hetjens, D Buergy… - Physics and Imaging in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Spirometry induced deep-inspiration-breath-hold (DIBH) reduces
intrafractional motion during upper abdominal stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT). The …

Evaluation of surface image guidance and Deep inspiration Breath Hold technique for breast treatments with Halcyon

F Crop, J Laffarguette, I Achag, D Pasquier, X Mirabel… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose To evaluate the accuracy/agreement of a three-camera Catalyst Surface Guided
Radiation Therapy (SGRT) system on a closed-gantry Halcyon for Free-Breathing (FB) and …

Patient specific evaluation of breathing motion induced interplay effects

M Varasteh, A Ali, S Esteve, P Jeevanandam, F Göpfert… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose In lung SABR, interplay between target motion and dynamically changing beam
parameters can affect the target coverage. To identify the potential need for motion …

Optimizing Choice of Skin Surrogates for Surface-Guided Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy of Lung Lesions Using Four-Dimensional Computed Tomography

V Leipold, I Alerić, M Mlinarić, D Kosmina, F Stanić… - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Surface tracking based on optical cameras is often used to reduce the
imaging dose while maintaining precision during stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy. A …

[HTML][HTML] Application of surface-guided radiation therapy in prostate cancer: comparative analysis of differences with skin marking-guided patient setup

J Lee, YJ Kim, Y Goh, E Yang, HU Kim… - Radiation Oncology …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose Surface-guided radiation therapy is an image-guided method using optical surface
imaging that has recently been adopted for patient setup and motion monitoring during …

SurVolT: Surface to Volume conversion Tool. A proof of concept

A Gorecki, V Sorgato, C Mazzara, S Clément, D Fric… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose: To develop SurVolT, a conversion tool able to apply volumetric changes
to DICOM Computed Tomography (CT) data using daily surface (obj) data acquired with …

High-speed low-noise optical respiratory monitoring for spot scanning proton therapy

M Belikhin, A Pryanichnikov, V Balakin, A Shemyakov… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose To investigate a novel optical markerless respiratory sensor for surface guided spot
scanning proton therapy and to measure its main technical characteristics. Methods The …