Accurate,robust and harmonized implementation of morpho-functional imaging in treatment planning for personalized radiotherapy [PDF]
, 2019 In this work we present a methodology able to use harmonized PET/CT imaging in dose painting by number (DPBN) approach by means of a robust and accurate treatment planning system.
Baeza, José Antonio +8 more
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Journal of Medical Physics, 2013 Online adaptive radiotherapy for bladder cancer is a novel radiotherapy technique that was found feasible in a pilot study at a single academic institution.
Daniel Pham +4 more
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Technical Innovations & Patient Support in Radiation Oncology, 2021 Magnetic resonance imaging (MR)-guided online adaptive radiotherapy is a promising technique in the field of radiation oncology providing excellent visualisation of soft-tissues, and allowing for online plan adaptation and tumour tracking.
Dinah Konnerth +7 more
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Some problems and errors in cytogenetic biodosimetry [PDF]
, 2016 Human radiosensitivity is a quantitative trait that is generally subject to binomial distribution. Individual radiosensitivity, however, may deviate significantly from the mean (by 2-3 standard deviations).
Kilchevsky, Alexander +3 more
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Online MR guided dose escalated radiotherapy for organ preservation in distal rectal cancer
Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology, 2022 Introduction: Non-surgical management of rectal cancer aiming for organ-preservation is an important development to improve rectal cancer treatment. Dose escalated radiotherapy represents one approach to increase clinical complete response (cCR) rates ...
Simon Boeke +12 more
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Radiation Oncology, 2022 Background Online adaptive stereotactic radiotherapy allows for improved target and organ at risk (OAR) delineation and inter-fraction motion management via daily adaptive planning.
Minsol Kim +7 more
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An Automated Treatment Plan Quality Control Tool for Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy Using a Voxel-Weighting Factor-Based Re-Optimization Algorithm. [PDF]
, 2016 Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) currently plays an important role in radiotherapy, but its treatment plan quality can vary significantly among institutions and planners.
Cerviño, Laura +8 more
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Environmental risk factors and their footprints in vivo – a proposal for the classification of oxidative stress biomarkers [PDF]
, 2020 Environmental agents, including socioeconomic condition, and host factors can act as causal agents and risk factors in disease. We use biomarkers and sociomarkers to study causal factors, such as overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) which ...
Ghezzi, Pietro
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Development of a GPU-based Monte Carlo dose calculation code for coupled electron-photon transport
, 2010 Monte Carlo simulation is the most accurate method for absorbed dose calculations in radiotherapy. Its efficiency still requires improvement for routine clinical applications, especially for online adaptive radiotherapy.
Amitava Majumdar +24 more
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Assessment of image quality and dose calculation accuracy on kV CBCT, MV CBCT, and MV CT images for urgent palliative radiotherapy treatments. [PDF]
, 2016 A clinical workflow was developed for urgent palliative radiotherapy treatments that integrates patient simulation, planning, quality assurance, and treatment in one 30-minute session.
Barani, Igor +9 more
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