Owing to advances in radiotherapy, the physical properties of radiation can be optimized to
enable individualized treatment; however, optimization is rarely based on biological …

Naturally occurring cancers in pet dogs and humans share many features, including
histological appearance, tumour genetics, molecular targets, biological behaviour and …

Purpose This report presents the methods and results of the Thoracic Auto‐Segmentation
Challenge organized at the 2017 Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in …

Task Group 101 of the AAPM has prepared this report for medical physicists, clinicians, and
therapists in order to outline the best practice guidelines for the external‐beam radiation …

From background physics and biological models to the latest imaging and treatment
modalities, the Handbook of Radiotherapy Physics: Theory and Practice covers all …

Purpose: Commercial CT‐based image‐guided radiotherapy (IGRT) systems allow
widespread management of geometric variations in patient setup and internal organ motion …

PURPOSE: Many patients receiving fractionated radiotherapy (RT) for head-and-neck
cancer have marked anatomic changes during their course of treatment, including shrinking …

Purpose The Oriatron eRT6 is an experimental high dose‐per‐pulse linear accelerator
(linac) which was designed to deliver an electron beam with variable dose‐rates, ranging …

A greyscale-based fully automatic deformable image registration algorithm, originally known
as the'demons' algorithm, was implemented for CT image-guided radiotherapy. We …

The major goal for prostate cancer imaging in the next decade is more accurate disease
characterization through the synthesis of anatomic, functional, and molecular imaging …