An essentially radiation‐transparent body coil integrated with a patient rotation system for MR‐guided particle therapy

KA Dietrich, S Klüter, F Dinkel, G Echner… - Medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background The pursuit of adaptive radiotherapy using MR imaging for better precision in
patient positioning puts stringent demands on the hardware components of the MR scanner …

[PDF][PDF] MRI-Guided Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer: A New Paradigm

J Murgić, M Gregov, I Mrčela, M Budanec… - Acta clinica …, 2022 - hrcak.srce.hr
Radiotherapy is one of the key treatment modalities for primary prostate cancer. During the
last decade, significant advances were made in radiotherapy technology leading to …

Optimization and validation of low‐field MP2RAGE T1 mapping on 0.35T MR‐Linac: Toward adaptive dose painting with hypoxia biomarkers

CKS Park, NS Warner, E Kaza… - Medical Physics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background Stereotactic MR‐guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy (SMART) dose
painting for hypoxia has potential to improve treatment outcomes, but clinical …

Recent Advances and Challenges in Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy

A Katano, M Minamitani, S Ohira… - Technology in Cancer …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) represents a sophisticated radiotherapeutic
paradigm, delivering exceptionally precise and potent radiation doses to target tumor sites …

Prostatic Urethral Length on MRI Potentially Predicts Late Genitourinary Toxicity After Prostate Cancer Radiation

J Lee, S Nandalur, A Hazy, S Al-Katib, K Kim, H Ye… - Academic radiology, 2024 - Elsevier
Rationale and Objectives The purpose of our study was to evaluate pretreatment prostate
quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements and clinical characteristics in …

Efficient segmentation using domain adaptation for MRI-guided and CBCT-guided online adaptive radiotherapy

Y Liu, B Yang, X Chen, J Zhu, G Ji, Y Liu… - Radiotherapy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Delineation of regions of interest (ROIs) is important for adaptive radiotherapy
(ART) but it is also time consuming and labor intensive. Aim This study aims to develop …

Creation, evolution, and future challenges of ion beam therapy from a medical physicist's viewpoint (Part 3): Chapter 3. Clinical research, Chapter 4. Future challenges …

M Endo - Radiological Physics and Technology, 2023 - Springer
Clinical studies of ion beam therapy have been performed at the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory (LBL), National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), Gesellschaft für …

Evaluation and mitigation of deformable image registration uncertainties for MRI‐guided adaptive radiotherapy

H Zhong, KK Kainz, ES Paulson - Journal of Applied Clinical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose We evaluate the performance of a deformable image registration (DIR) software
package in registering abdominal magnetic resonance images (MRIs) and then develop a …

Biomedical advances and future prospects of high-precision three-dimensional radiotherapy and four-dimensional radiotherapy

H Shirato - Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B, 2023 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Biomedical advances of external-beam radiotherapy (EBRT) with improvements in physical
accuracy are reviewed. High-precision (±1 mm) three-dimensional radiotherapy (3DRT) can …

TC-KANRecon: High-Quality and Accelerated MRI Reconstruction via Adaptive KAN Mechanisms and Intelligent Feature Scaling

R Ge, X Yu, Y Chen, F Jia, S Zhu, G Zhou… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has become essential in clinical diagnosis due to its
high resolution and multiple contrast mechanisms. However, the relatively long acquisition …