Image guidance in radiation therapy for better cure of cancer

V Grégoire, M Guckenberger… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The key goal and main challenge of radiation therapy is the elimination of tumors without
any concurring damages of the surrounding healthy tissues and organs. Radiation doses …

New developments in MRI for target volume delineation in radiotherapy

VS Khoo, DL Joon - The British journal of radiology, 2006 - academic.oup.com
MRI is being increasingly used in oncology for staging, assessing tumour response and also
for treatment planning in radiotherapy. Both conformal and intensity-modulated radiotherapy …

Report of the Task Group 186 on model‐based dose calculation methods in brachytherapy beyond the TG‐43 formalism: current status and recommendations for …

L Beaulieu, Å Carlsson Tedgren, JF Carrier… - Medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The charge of Task Group 186 (TG‐186) is to provide guidance for early adopters of model‐
based dose calculation algorithms (MBDCAs) for brachytherapy (BT) dose calculations to …

MRI simulation for radiotherapy treatment planning

S Devic - Medical physics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last two decades, the computed tomography simulator became the standard of the
contemporary radiotherapy treatment planning (RTP) process. Along the same time, the …

“MRI Stealth” robot for prostate interventions

D Stoianovici, D Song, D Petrisor, D Ursu… - … Invasive Therapy & …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
The paper reports an important achievement in MRI instrumentation, a pneumatic, fully
actuated robot located within the scanner alongside the patient and operating under remote …

Magnetic resonance image guided brachytherapy

K Tanderup, AN Viswanathan, C Kirisits… - Seminars in radiation …, 2014 - Elsevier
The application of magnetic resonance image (MRI)–guided brachytherapy has
demonstrated significant growth during the past 2 decades. Clinical improvements in cervix …

[HTML][HTML] Boosting imaging defined dominant prostatic tumors: a systematic review

G Bauman, M Haider, UA Van der Heide… - Radiotherapy and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Introduction Dominant cancer foci within the prostate are associated with sites of local
recurrence post radiotherapy. In this systematic review we sought to address the …

Automatic multi‐catheter detection using deeply supervised convolutional neural network in MRI‐guided HDR prostate brachytherapy

X Dai, Y Lei, Y Zhang, RLJ Qiu, T Wang… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose High‐dose‐rate (HDR) brachytherapy is an established technique to be used as
monotherapy option or focal boost in conjunction with external beam radiation therapy …

American Brachytherapy Society Task Group Report: Combination of brachytherapy and external beam radiation for high-risk prostate cancer

DE Spratt, PD Soni, PW McLaughlin, GS Merrick… - Brachytherapy, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose To review outcomes for high-risk prostate cancer treated with combined modality
radiation therapy (CMRT) utilizing external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) with a …

A facility for magnetic resonance–guided radiation therapy

DA Jaffray, MC Carlone, MF Milosevic, SL Breen… - Seminars in radiation …, 2014 - Elsevier
Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is routinely employed in the design of radiotherapy (RT)
treatment plans for many disease sites. It is evident that tighter integration of MR imaging …