[HTML][HTML] Magnetic resonance imaging-guided adaptive radiation therapy: a “game changer” for prostate treatment?

AU Pathmanathan, NJ van As, LGW Kerkmeijer… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Radiation therapy to the prostate involves increasingly sophisticated delivery techniques
and changing fractionation schedules. With a low estimated α/β ratio, a larger dose per …

Improving radiation physics, tumor visualisation, and treatment quantification in radiotherapy with spectral or dual‐energy CT

MF Kruis - Journal of applied clinical medical physics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decade, spectral or dual‐energy CT has gained relevancy, especially in
oncological radiology. Nonetheless, its use in the radiotherapy (RT) clinic remains limited …

Dose evaluation of fast synthetic-CT generation using a generative adversarial network for general pelvis MR-only radiotherapy

M Maspero, MHF Savenije, AM Dinkla… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
To enable magnetic resonance (MR)-only radiotherapy and facilitate modelling of radiation
attenuation in humans, synthetic CT (sCT) images need to be generated. Considering the …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning-based synthetic CT generation for paediatric brain MR-only photon and proton radiotherapy

M Maspero, LG Bentvelzen, MHF Savenije… - Radiotherapy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Purpose To enable accurate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-
based dose calculations, synthetic computed tomography (sCT) images need to be …

MR-only brain radiation therapy: dosimetric evaluation of synthetic CTs generated by a dilated convolutional neural network

AM Dinkla, JM Wolterink, M Maspero… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose This work aims to facilitate a fast magnetic resonance (MR)-only workflow for
radiation therapy of intracranial tumors. Here, we evaluate whether synthetic computed …

Towards fast online intrafraction replanning for free-breathing stereotactic body radiation therapy with the MR-linac

C Kontaxis, GH Bol, B Stemkens… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The hybrid MRI-radiotherapy machines, like the MR-linac (Elekta AB, Stockholm, Sweden)
installed at the UMC Utrecht (Utrecht, The Netherlands), will be able to provide real-time …

Clinical implementation of MRI-based organs-at-risk auto-segmentation with convolutional networks for prostate radiotherapy

MHF Savenije, M Maspero, GG Sikkes… - Radiation …, 2020 - Springer
Background Structure delineation is a necessary, yet time-consuming manual procedure in
radiotherapy. Recently, convolutional neural networks have been proposed to speed-up and …

[HTML][HTML] A single neural network for cone-beam computed tomography-based radiotherapy of head-and-neck, lung and breast cancer

M Maspero, AC Houweling, MHF Savenije… - Physics and imaging in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Adaptive radiotherapy based on cone-beam computed
tomography (CBCT) requires high CT number accuracy to ensure accurate dose …

Dose evaluation of MRI-based synthetic CT generated using a machine learning method for prostate cancer radiotherapy

G Shafai-Erfani, T Wang, Y Lei, S Tian, P Patel… - Medical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-only radiotherapy treatment planning is attractive since
MRI provides superior soft tissue contrast over computed tomographies (CTs), without the …

Magnetic resonance imaging only workflow for radiotherapy simulation and planning in prostate cancer

LGW Kerkmeijer, M Maspero, GJ Meijer, JRNV van Zyp… - Clinical Oncology, 2018 - Elsevier
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is often combined with computed tomography (CT) in
prostate radiotherapy to optimise delineation of the target and organs-at-risk (OAR) while …