Adaptive radiation therapy (ART) strategies and technical considerations: a state of the ART review from NRG oncology

CK Glide-Hurst, P Lee, AD Yock, JR Olsen… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The integration of adaptive radiation therapy (ART), or modifying the treatment plan during
the treatment course, is becoming more widely available in clinical practice. ART offers …

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 …

First patients treated with a 1.5 T MRI-Linac: clinical proof of concept of a high-precision, high-field MRI guided radiotherapy treatment

BW Raaymakers, IM Jürgenliemk-Schulz… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The integration of 1.5 T MRI functionality with a radiotherapy linear accelerator (linac) has
been pursued since 1999 by the UMC Utrecht in close collaboration with Elekta and Philips …

Medical physics challenges in clinical MR-guided radiotherapy

C Kurz, G Buizza, G Landry, F Kamp, M Rabe… - Radiation …, 2020 - Springer
The integration of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for guidance in external beam
radiotherapy has faced significant research and development efforts in recent years. The …

MR-guided proton therapy: a review and a preview

A Hoffmann, B Oborn, M Moteabbed, S Yan… - Radiation …, 2020 - Springer
Background The targeting accuracy of proton therapy (PT) for moving soft-tissue tumours is
expected to greatly improve by real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guidance. The …

[HTML][HTML] Prostate intrafraction motion during the preparation and delivery of MR-guided radiotherapy sessions on a 1.5 T MR-Linac

DM de Muinck Keizer, LGW Kerkmeijer… - Radiotherapy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose To evaluate prostate intrafraction motion using MRI during the full course of online
adaptive MR-Linac radiotherapy (RT) fractions, in preparation of MR-guided extremely …

[HTML][HTML] 4D-MRI driven MR-guided online adaptive radiotherapy for abdominal stereotactic body radiation therapy on a high field MR-Linac: Implementation and initial …

ES Paulson, E Ahunbay, X Chen, NJ Mickevicius… - Clinical and translational …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and purpose In this report, we describe our implementation and initial clinical
experience using 4D-MRI driven MR-guided online adaptive radiotherapy (MRgOART) for …

MRI-based treatment planning for proton radiotherapy: dosimetric validation of a deep learning-based liver synthetic CT generation method

Y Liu, Y Lei, Y Wang, T Wang, L Ren… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been widely used in combination with computed
tomography (CT) radiation therapy because MRI improves the accuracy and reliability of …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive radiotherapy enabled by MRI guidance

A Hunt, VN Hansen, U Oelfke, S Nill, S Hafeez - Clinical Oncology, 2018 - Elsevier
Adaptive radiotherapy (ART) strategies systematically monitor variations in target and
neighbouring structures to inform treatment-plan modification during radiotherapy. This is …

Evaluation of a deep learning-based pelvic synthetic CT generation technique for MRI-based prostate proton treatment planning

Y Liu, Y Lei, Y Wang, G Shafai-Erfani… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The purpose of this work is to validate the application of a deep learning-based method for
pelvic synthetic CT (sCT) generation that can be used for prostate proton beam therapy …