Deep inspiration breath hold—based radiation therapy: a clinical review

J Boda-Heggemann, AC Knopf… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Several recent developments in linear accelerator–based radiation therapy (RT) such as fast
multileaf collimators, accelerated intensity modulation paradigms like volumeric modulated …

Tumour movement in proton therapy: solutions and remaining questions: a review

D De Ruysscher, E Sterpin, K Haustermans, T Depuydt - Cancers, 2015 - mdpi.com
Movement of tumours, mostly by respiration, has been a major problem for treating lung
cancer, liver tumours and other locations in the abdomen and thorax. Organ motion is …

First clinical implementation of real‐time, real anatomy tracking and radiation beam control

OL Green, LJ Rankine, B Cai, A Curcuru… - Medical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose We describe the acceptance testing, commissioning, periodic quality assurance,
and workflow procedures developed for the first clinically implemented magnetic resonance …

AAPM Task Group 264: The safe clinical implementation of MLC tracking in radiotherapy

PJ Keall, A Sawant, RI Berbeco, JT Booth… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The era of real‐time radiotherapy is upon us. Robotic and gimbaled linac tracking are
clinically established technologies with the clinical realization of couch tracking in …

The first clinical implementation of electromagnetic transponder‐guided MLC tracking

PJ Keall, E Colvill, R O'Brien, JA Ng… - Medical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: We report on the clinical process, quality assurance, and geometric and dosimetric
results of the first clinical implementation of electromagnetic transponder‐guided MLC …

Quality assurance for nonradiographic radiotherapy localization and positioning systems: report of Task Group 147

T Willoughby, J Lehmann, JA Bencomo… - Medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
New technologies continue to be developed to improve the practice of radiation therapy. As
several of these technologies have been implemented clinically, the Therapy Committee …

Geometric accuracy of a novel gimbals based radiation therapy tumor tracking system

T Depuydt, D Verellen, O Haas, T Gevaert… - Radiotherapy and …, 2011 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: VERO is a novel platform for image guided stereotactic body radiotherapy.
Orthogonal gimbals hold the linac-MLC assembly allowing real-time moving tumor tracking …

Management of three‐dimensional intrafraction motion through real‐time DMLC tracking

A Sawant, R Venkat, V Srivastava, D Carlson… - Medical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Tumor tracking using a dynamic multileaf collimator (DMLC) represents a promising
approach for intrafraction motion management in thoracic and abdominal cancer …

[HTML][HTML] A dosimetric comparison of real-time adaptive and non-adaptive radiotherapy: a multi-institutional study encompassing robotic, gimbaled, multileaf collimator …

E Colvill, J Booth, S Nill, M Fast, J Bedford… - Radiotherapy and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Purpose A study of real-time adaptive radiotherapy systems was performed to test the
hypothesis that, across delivery systems and institutions, the dosimetric accuracy is …

First demonstration of combined kV/MV image-guided real-time dynamic multileaf-collimator target tracking

B Cho, PR Poulsen, A Sloutsky, A Sawant… - International Journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: For intrafraction motion management, a real-time tracking system was
developed by combining fiducial marker-based tracking via simultaneous kilovoltage (kV) …