AAPM task group report 302: surface‐guided radiotherapy

HA Al‐Hallaq, L Cerviño, AN Gutierrez… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The clinical use of surface imaging has increased dramatically, with demonstrated utility for
initial patient positioning, real‐time motion monitoring, and beam gating in a variety of …

Real-time intrafraction motion monitoring in external beam radiotherapy

J Bertholet, A Knopf, B Eiben… - Physics in medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Radiotherapy (RT) aims to deliver a spatially conformal dose of radiation to tumours while
maximizing the dose sparing to healthy tissues. However, the internal patient anatomy is …

Deep inspiration breath hold: techniques and advantages for cardiac sparing during breast cancer irradiation

C Bergom, A Currey, N Desai, A Tai… - Frontiers in oncology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Historically, heart dose from left-sided breast radiotherapy has been associated with a risk of
cardiac injury. Data suggests that there is not a threshold for the deleterious effects from …

Deep inspiration breath hold—based radiation therapy: a clinical review

J Boda-Heggemann, AC Knopf… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Several recent developments in linear accelerator–based radiation therapy (RT) such as fast
multileaf collimators, accelerated intensity modulation paradigms like volumeric modulated …

Breast cancer therapy-associated cardiovascular disease

TM Zagar, DM Cardinale, LB Marks - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2016 - nature.com
Breast cancer treatments have evolved over the past decades, although several widely used
treatments have adverse cardiac effects. Radiotherapy generally improves the survival of …

Advances and potential of optical surface imaging in radiotherapy

G Li - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This article reviews the recent advancements and future potential of optical surface imaging
(OSI) in clinical applications as a four-dimensional (4D) imaging modality for surface-guided …

Utility of deep inspiration breath hold for left-sided breast radiation therapy in preventing early cardiac perfusion defects: a prospective study

TM Zagar, O Kaidar-Person, X Tang, EE Jones… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose To evaluate early cardiac single photon computed tomography (SPECT) findings
after left breast/chest wall postoperative radiation therapy (RT) in the setting of deep …

Dose reduction to organs at risk with deep-inspiration breath-hold during right breast radiotherapy: a treatment planning study

C Pandeli, LML Smyth, S David, AW See - Radiation Oncology, 2019 - Springer
Background The addition of regional nodal radiation (RNI) to whole breast irradiation for
high risk breast cancer improves metastases free survival and new data suggests it …

Prospective assessment of deep inspiration breath-hold using 3-dimensional surface tracking for irradiation of left-sided breast cancer

SK Tanguturi, Y Lyatskaya, Y Chen, PJ Catalano… - Practical radiation …, 2015 - Elsevier
Purpose Deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH) is used to decrease cardiac irradiation during
radiation therapy (RT) for breast cancer. The patients most likely to benefit and the impact on …

[PDF][PDF] Heart sparing radiotherapy techniques in breast cancer: a focus on deep inspiration breath hold

HB Stowe, ND Andruska, F Reynoso… - … Cancer: Targets and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Adjuvant radiation therapy is a critical component of breast cancer management. However,
when breast cancer patients receive incidental radiation to the heart, there is an increased …