Deformable image registration for radiation therapy: principle, methods, applications and evaluation

B Rigaud, A Simon, J Castelli, C Lafond, O Acosta… - Acta …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Deformable image registration (DIR) is increasingly used in the field of
radiation therapy (RT) to account for anatomical deformations. The aims of this paper are to …

How rapid advances in imaging are defining the future of precision radiation oncology

L Beaton, S Bandula, MN Gaze, RA Sharma - British journal of cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Imaging has an essential role in the planning and delivery of radiotherapy. Recent advances
in imaging have led to the development of advanced radiotherapy techniques—including …

Radiomics and machine learning for radiotherapy in head and neck cancers

P Giraud, P Giraud, A Gasnier, R El Ayachy… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: An increasing number of parameters can be considered when making
decisions in oncology. Tumor characteristics can also be extracted from imaging through the …

An evaluation of techniques for dose calculation on cone beam computed tomography

V Giacometti, RB King, CE Agnew… - The British journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Objective: To assess the accuracy and efficiency of four different techniques, thus
determining the optimum method for recalculating dose on cone beam CT (CBCT) images …

[HTML][HTML] Improvements in CBCT image quality using a novel iterative reconstruction algorithm: a clinical evaluation

SJ Gardner, W Mao, C Liu, I Aref, M Elshaikh… - Advances in radiation …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose This study aimed to evaluate the clinical utility of a novel iterative cone beam
computed tomography (CBCT) reconstruction algorithm for prostate and head and neck …

Factual survey of the clinical use of deformable image registration software for radiotherapy in Japan

N Kadoya, S Kito, M Kurooka, M Saito… - Journal of Radiation …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Deformable image registration (DIR) has recently become commercially available in the field
of radiotherapy. However, there was no detailed information regarding the use of DIR …

Deep learning deformation initialization for rapid groupwise registration of inhomogeneous image populations

S Ahmad, J Fan, P Dong, X Cao, PT Yap… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Groupwise image registration tackles biases that can potentially arise from inappropriate
template selection. It typically involves simultaneous registration of a cohort of images to a …

A density assignment method for dose monitoring in head-and-neck radiotherapy

A Barateau, N Perichon, J Castelli… - Strahlentherapie …, 2019 - search.proquest.com
Background and purpose During head-and-neck (H&N) radiotherapy, the parotid glands
(PGs) may be overdosed; thus, a tool is required to monitor the delivered dose. This study …

Evaluation of an open source registration package for automatic contour propagation in online adaptive intensity-modulated proton therapy of prostate cancer

Y Qiao, T Jagt, M Hoogeman, BPF Lelieveldt… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Objective: Our goal was to investigate the performance of an open source deformable image
registration package, elastix, for fast and robust contour propagation in the context of online …

Variations of the dose distribution between CT-and CBCT-based plans for oropharyngeal cancer

M Otsuka, H Monzen, K Ishikawa, H Doi, K Matsumoto… - in vivo, 2019 - iv.iiarjournals.org
Background/Aim: The parotid glands in the head and neck are organs at risks (OARs)
adjacent to high dose region and dose of OARs might be increased during the course of …