Complexity metrics for IMRT and VMAT plans: a review of current literature and applications

S Chiavassa, I Bessieres, M Edouard… - The British journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Modulated radiotherapy with multileaf collimators is widely used to improve target conformity
and normal tissue sparing. This introduced an additional degree of complexity, studied by …

A review of dose calculation approaches with cone beam CT in photon and proton therapy

V Giacometti, AR Hounsell, CK McGarry - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and purpose The use of cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) for
performing dose calculations in radiation therapy has been widely investigated as it could …

Dosimetric validation of a GAN-based pseudo-CT generation for MRI-only stereotactic brain radiotherapy

V Bourbonne, V Jaouen, C Hognon, N Boussion… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) has become widely accepted as a
treatment of choice for patients with a small number of brain metastases that are of an …

Deep multimodal neural network based on data-feature fusion for patient-specific quality assurance

T Hu, L Xie, L Zhang, G Li, Z Yi - International journal of neural …, 2022 - World Scientific
Patient-specific quality assurance (QA) for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) plans
is routinely performed in the clinical. However, it is labor-intensive and time-consuming for …

Prediction of patient‐specific quality assurance for volumetric modulated arc therapy using radiomics‐based machine learning with dose distribution

N Ishizaka, T Kinoshita, M Sakai… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose We sought to develop machine learning models to predict the results of patient‐
specific quality assurance (QA) for volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), which were …

Characterization of tissue equivalent materials using 3D printing for patient-specific DQA in radiation therapy

Y Choi, YJ Jang, KB Kim, J Bahng, SH Choi - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Three-dimensional printing technology has the advantage of facilitating the construction of
complex three-dimensional shapes. For this reason, it is widely used in medical and …

Machine learning-based predictions of gamma passing rates for virtual specific-plan verification based on modulation maps, monitor unit profiles, and composite dose …

P Quintero, D Benoit, Y Cheng, C Moore… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Machine learning (ML) methods have been implemented in radiotherapy to aid
virtual specific-plan verification protocols, predicting gamma passing rates (GPR) based on …

Multi-granularity prior networks for uncertainty-informed patient-specific quality assurance

X Zeng, Q Zhu, A Ahmed, M Hanif, M Hou, Q Jie… - Computers in Biology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Deep Learning Automated Patient-Specific Quality Assurance (PSQA) aims to
reduce clinical resource requirements. It is vital to ensure the safety and effectiveness of …

Extracting the gradient component of the gamma index using the lie derivative method

Y Anetai, K Doi, H Takegawa, Y Koike… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. The gamma index (γ) has been extensively investigated in the medical physics
and applied in clinical practice. However, γ has a significant limitation when used to …

An introduction to key performance indicators for medical physicists

DJ DiCostanzo, LK Kumaraswamy… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Qualified medical physicists (QMPs) are in a unique position to influence the creation and
application of key performance indicators (KPIs) across diverse practices in health care …