Comparison of 12 deformable registration strategies in adaptive radiation therapy for the treatment of head and neck tumors

P Castadot, JA Lee, A Parraga, X Geets, B Macq… - Radiotherapy and …, 2008 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Weight loss, tumor shrinkage, and tissue edema induce
substantial modification of patient's anatomy during head and neck (HN) radiotherapy (RT) …

Adaptive radiotherapy with an average anatomy model: evaluation and quantification of residual deformations in head and neck cancer patients

S Van Kranen, A Mencarelli, S van Beek… - Radiotherapy and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background and purpose To develop and validate an adaptive intervention strategy for
radiotherapy of head-and-neck cancer that accounts for systematic deformations by …

Toward adaptive radiotherapy for head and neck patients: uncertainties in dose warping due to the choice of deformable registration algorithm

C Veiga, AM Lourenço, S Mouinuddin… - Medical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The aims of this work were to evaluate the performance of several deformable
image registration (DIR) algorithms implemented in our in‐house software (NiftyReg) and …

Evaluation of deformable image registration methods for dose monitoring in head and neck radiotherapy

B Rigaud, A Simon, J Castelli, M Gobeli… - BioMed research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In the context of head and neck cancer (HNC) adaptive radiation therapy (ART), the two
purposes of the study were to compare the performance of multiple deformable image …

Deformable image registration for adaptive radiation therapy of head and neck cancer: accuracy and precision in the presence of tumor changes

A Mencarelli, SR van Kranen… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Purpose To compare deformable image registration (DIR) accuracy and precision for normal
and tumor tissues in head and neck cancer patients during the course of radiation therapy …

The impact of robustness of deformable image registration on contour propagation and dose accumulation for head and neck adaptive radiotherapy

L Zhang, Z Wang, C Shi, T Long… - Journal of applied clinical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Deformable image registration (DIR) is the key process for contour propagation and dose
accumulation in adaptive radiation therapy (ART). However, currently, ART suffers from a …

A multi-institution evaluation of deformable image registration algorithms for automatic organ delineation in adaptive head and neck radiotherapy

N Hardcastle, WA Tomé, DM Cannon, CL Brouwer… - Radiation …, 2012 - Springer
Abstract Background Adaptive Radiotherapy aims to identify anatomical deviations during a
radiotherapy course and modify the treatment plan to maintain treatment objectives. This …

Toward adaptive radiotherapy for head and neck patients: feasibility study on using CT‐to‐CBCT deformable registration for “dose of the day” calculations

C Veiga, J McClelland, S Moinuddin… - Medical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the appropriateness of using computed
tomography (CT) to cone‐beam CT (CBCT) deformable image registration (DIR) for the …

An on‐line replanning method for head and neck adaptive radiotherapy a

EE Ahunbay, C Peng, A Godley, C Schultz… - Medical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Daily setup for head and neck (HN) radiotherapy (RT) can vary randomly due to neck
rotation and anatomy change. These differences cannot be totally corrected by the current …

Clinical outcomes of adaptive radiotherapy in head and neck cancers

T Kataria, D Gupta, S Goyal, SS Bisht… - The British Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Objective: The present study evaluated the efficacy and toxicity of adaptive radiotherapy
(RT) among patients with head and neck cancer. Methods: 36 patients eligible for radical RT …