[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in radiation oncology

C Garibaldi, BA Jereczek-Fossa, G Marvaso… - …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Radiotherapy (RT) is very much a technology-driven treatment modality in the management
of cancer. RT techniques have changed significantly over the past few decades, thanks to …

MRI-guidance for motion management in external beam radiotherapy: current status and future challenges

C Paganelli, B Whelan, M Peroni… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
High precision conformal radiotherapy requires sophisticated imaging techniques to aid in
target localisation for planning and treatment, particularly when organ motion due to …

[HTML][HTML] Statistical deformation reconstruction using multi-organ shape features for pancreatic cancer localization

M Nakao, M Nakamura, T Mizowaki, T Matsuda - Medical image analysis, 2021 - Elsevier
Respiratory motion and the associated deformations of abdominal organs and tumors are
essential information in clinical applications. However, inter-and intra-patient multi-organ …

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 …

A phantom to simulate organ motion and its effect on dose distribution in carbon ion therapy for pancreatic cancer

C Stengl, K Panow, E Arbes, ID Muñoz… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Carbon ion radiotherapy is a promising radiation technique for malignancies like
pancreatic cancer. However, organs' motion imposes challenges for achieving …

Development of a soft robot based photodynamic therapy for pancreatic cancer

Y Li, Y Liu, K Yamazaki, M Bai… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has received increased attention over the past decades with
the potential to noninvasively treat cancer via light exposure. Due to the limited light …

Virtual 4DCT from 4DMRI for the management of respiratory motion in carbon ion therapy of abdominal tumors

G Meschini, A Vai, C Paganelli, S Molinelli… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To evaluate a method for generating virtual four‐dimensional computed
tomography (4DCT) from four‐dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (4DMRI) data in …

Significance of intra-fractional motion for pancreatic patients treated with charged particles

V Batista, D Richter, N Chaudhri, P Naumann… - Radiation …, 2018 - Springer
Background Uncertainties associated with the delivery of treatment to moving organs might
compromise the accuracy of treatment. This study explores the impact of intra-fractional …

Time‐resolved MRI for off‐line treatment robustness evaluation in carbon‐ion radiotherapy of pancreatic cancer

G Meschini, A Vai, A Barcellini, G Fontana… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose In this study, we investigate the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the
clinical evaluation of gating treatment robustness in carbon‐ion radiotherapy (CIRT) of …

Pancreas MRI segmentation into head, body, and tail enables regional quantitative analysis of heterogeneous disease

A Triay Bagur, P Aljabar, GR Ridgway… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Quantitative imaging studies of the pancreas have often targeted the three main
anatomical segments, head, body, and tail, using manual region of interest strategies to …