Static couch non-coplanar arc selection optimization for lung SBRT treatment planning

JD Lincoln, RL MacDonald, A Syme… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Non-coplanar arc geometry optimizations that take advantage of beam's eye view
(BEV) geometric overlap information have been proven to reduce dose to healthy organs-at …

Evaluation of plan quality and treatment efficiency in cranial stereotactic radiosurgery treatment plans with a variable source‐to‐axis distance

C Church, RL MacDonald, D Parsons… - Medical physics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Radiotherapy deliveries with dynamic couch motions that shorten the source‐to‐
axis distance (SAD) on a C‐arm linac have the potential to increase treatment efficiency …

Toward the combined optimization of dynamic axes (CODA) for stereotactic radiotherapy and radiosurgery using fixed couch trajectories

RL MacDonald, A Syme, B Little, L Ward… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop a novel system for patient‐specific combined optimization of couch,
collimator, and gantry angles for use in volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) treatment …

Intra‐arc binary collimation with dynamic axes trajectory optimization for the SRS treatment of multiple metastases with multiple prescriptions

E Lee, RL MacDonald, CG Thomas, A Syme - Medical Physics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose This work generates multi‐metastases cranial stereotactic radiosurgery/
radiotherapy (SRS/SRT) plans using a novel treatment planning technique in which dynamic …

Radiosurgery treatment planning using conformal arc informed volumetric modulated arc therapy

WM Giles, ET Cullom, OAO Laryea, A Nobah… - Medical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Linac based radiosurgery to multiple metastases is commonly planned with volumetric
modulated arc therapy (VMAT) as it effectively achieves high conformality to complex target …

Non-Coplanar Arc Optimization for Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy Treatment Planning

J Lincoln - 2023 - dalspace.library.dal.ca
Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) is a technique that delivers a high dose of
radiation in a single or small number of fractions and requires rapid fall off outside the target …

[PDF][PDF] Improved SRS plan evaluation and planning for treatment of multiple targets using novel techniques in single isocentre VMAT

KF Blythe - 2023 - research.manchester.ac.uk
1.1 Purpose The purpose of this work is to optimise the output of a commercially available
treatment planning system, for Non Coplanar Single Isocentre VMAT (NC SI VMAT) …

Techniques to Minimize the Dosimetric Impact of Intrafractional Motion with Improved Treatment Accuracy and Efficiency on a C-arm Medical Linear Accelerator

C Church - 2022 - dalspace.library.dal.ca
Stereotactic radiosurgery is a high-dose therapeutic technique for treating cranial lesions. To
ensure that treatment is safe and effective several techniques are employed, namely:(1) …

Systems and methods for single isocenter radiotherapy of multiple targets

J Adamson, W Giles, O Laryea, FF Yin - US Patent 11,376,445, 2022 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and methods are provided for single isocenter radiotherapy of multiple
targets. Conformal arc information may be used in a Conformal Arc Informed Volumetric …

Plan Quality and Sensitivity Analysis of Conformal Arc Informed Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (CAVMAT)

ET Cullom IV - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Purpose: Linac based radiosurgery to multiple metastases is commonly planned with VMAT
as it effectively achieves high conformality to complex target arrangements. However, as the …