rtdsm—An open‐source software for radiotherapy dose‐surface map generation and analysis

HM Patrick, J Kildea - Medical physics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Dose‐outcome studies in radiation oncology have historically excluded spatial
information due to dose‐volume histograms being the most dominant source of dosimetric …

Estimating the percentage of patients who might benefit from proton beam therapy instead of X-ray radiotherapy

NG Burnet, T Mee, S Gaito, NF Kirkby… - The British journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Objectives: High-energy Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) commenced in England in 2018 and
NHS England commissions PBT for 1.5% of patients receiving radical radiotherapy. We …

Predicting cancer relapse following lung stereotactic radiotherapy: an external validation study using real-world evidence

A Davey, M Thor, M van Herk, C Faivre-Finn… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Purpose For patients receiving lung stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR), evidence
suggests that high peritumor density predicts an increased risk of microscopic disease …

Experimental validation of a novel method of dose accumulation for the rectum

HM Patrick, E Poon, J Kildea - Acta Oncologica, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Background Dose-surface maps (DSMs) are an increasingly popular tool to
evaluate spatial dose-outcome relationships for the rectum. Recently, DSM addition has …

[HTML][HTML] Dose-volume analysis of planned versus accumulated dose as a predictor for late gastrointestinal toxicity in men receiving radiotherapy for high-risk prostate …

ALK Ong, K Knight, V Panettieri, M Dimmock… - Physics and Imaging in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Significant dose deviations have been reported between planned
(DP) and accumulated (DA) dose in prostate radiotherapy. This study aimed to develop …

More than one way to skin a dose volume: the impact of dose-surface map calculation approach on study reproducibility

HM Patrick, J Kildea - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Dose-surface maps (DSMs) provide spatial representations of the radiation dose
to organ surfaces during radiotherapy and are a valuable tool for identifying dose deposition …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of radiation dose distribution on nutritional supplementation needs in head and neck cancer radiotherapy: a voxel-based machine learning approach

S Madhavan, M Gamez, YI Garces, SC Lester… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Objectives To investigate the relationship between nutritional supplementation and radiation
dose to the pharyngeal constrictor muscles and larynx for head and neck (HN) cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Predictors for late genitourinary toxicity in men receiving radiotherapy for high-risk prostate cancer using planned and accumulated dose

ALK Ong, K Knight, V Panettieri, M Dimmock… - Physics and Imaging in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Significant deviations between bladder dose planned (DP) and
dose accumulated (DA) have been reported in patients receiving radiotherapy for prostate …

[HTML][HTML] Machine-learning with region-level radiomic and dosimetric features for predicting radiotherapy-induced rectal toxicities in prostate cancer patients

Z Yang, DJ Noble, L Shelley, T Berger, R Jena… - Radiotherapy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and purpose This study aims to build machine learning models to predict
radiation-induced rectal toxicities for three clinical endpoints and explore whether the …

radial data mining to identify density–dose interactions that predict distant failure following SABR

A Davey, M van Herk, C Faivre-Finn… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Purpose Lower dose outside the planned treatment area in lung stereotactic radiotherapy
has been linked to increased risk of distant metastasis (DM) possibly due to underdosage of …