Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology, 2020 Brachytherapy can deliver high doses to the target while sparing healthy tissues due to its steep dose gradient leading to excellent clinical outcome.
Gabriel P. Fonseca +7 more
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A Validation Method for EPID In Vivo Dosimetry Algorithms
Applied Sciences, 2021 The aim of this study was to develop and apply an evaluation method for assessing the accuracy of a novel 3D EPID back-projection algorithm for in vivo dosimetry. The novel algorithm of Dosimetry Check (DC) 5.8 was evaluated. A slab phantom homogeneously
Marco Esposito +5 more
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Biological Planning of Radiation Dose Based on In Vivo Dosimetry for Postoperative Vaginal-Cuff HDR Interventional Radiotherapy (Brachytherapy) [PDF]
Biomedicines, 2021 (1) Background: Postoperative vaginal-cuff HDR interventional radiotherapy (brachytherapy) is a standard treatment in early-stage endometrial cancer.
Tamer Soror +4 more
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In vivo Dosimetry for dose verification of total skin electron beam therapy using gafchromic® EBT3 film dosimetry [PDF]
Journal of Medical Physics, 2022 Background and Purpose: Total skin electron beam therapy (TSEBT) is an important skin-directed radiotherapeutic procedure done in the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphomas, namely, mycosis fungoides (MF). This procedure is usually done at larger source-
Misba Hamid Baba +2 more
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Towards quantitative in vivo dosimetry using x-ray acoustic computed tomography. [PDF]
Med Phys, 2023 BACKGROUND Radiation dosimetry is essential for radiation therapy (RT) to ensure that radiation dose is accurately delivered to the tumor. Despite its wide use in clinical intervention, the delivered radiation dose can only be planned and verified via ...
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A direct comparison of the optically stimulated luminescent properties of BeO and Al2O3 for clinical in-vivo dosimetry. [PDF]
Phys Eng Sci Med, 2022 Optically stimulated luminescence dosimetry is a relatively recent field of in-vivo dosimetry in clinical radiotherapy, developing over the last 20 years. As a pilot study, this paper presents a direct comparison between the sensitivity variance with use,
Broadhead B, Noble C, Ramachandran P.
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Histotripsy for the Treatment of Cholangiocarcinoma Liver Tumors: In Vivo Feasibility and Ex Vivo Dosimetry Study. [PDF]
IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control, 2021 Histotripsy is a noninvasive, nonionizing, and nonthermal focused ultrasound ablation method that is currently being developed for the treatment of liver cancer. Promisingly, histotripsy has been shown for ablating primary [hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)]
Hendricks-Wenger A +9 more
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Comparing treatment uncertainty for ultra- vs. standard-hypofractionated breast radiation therapy based on in-vivo dosimetry. [PDF]
Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol, 2022 Fiagan YAC +7 more
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Development of Artificial Intelligence as a Conversion Tool for Cine Electronic Portal Imaging Device Images to Radiotherapy Dosimetry: Preliminary Study [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Medical Physics, 2022 Introduction: This research is a preliminary study of the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a conversion tool from the pixel value of Cine a-Si 1000 Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID) images to dose.
Muhammad Ramadhan +2 more
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A clinically relevant online patient QA solution with daily CT scans and EPID-based in vivo dosimetry: a feasibility study on rectal cancer [PDF]
Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2022 Objective. Adaptive radiation therapy (ART) could protect organs at risk (OARs) while maintain high dose coverage to targets. However, there is still a lack of efficient online patient quality assurance (QA) methods, which is an obstacle to large-scale ...
Liyuan Chen +10 more
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