GEC-ESTRO ACROP prostate brachytherapy guidelines

A Henry, BR Pieters, FA Siebert, P Hoskin - Radiotherapy and Oncology, 2022 - Elsevier
This is an evidence-based guideline for prostate brachytherapy. Throughout levels of
evidence quoted are those from the Oxford Centre for Evidence based Medicine …

[HTML][HTML] Future Treatment Strategies for Cancer Patients Combining Targeted Alpha Therapy with Pillars of Cancer Treatment: External Beam Radiation Therapy …

RC Winter, M Amghar, AS Wacker, G Bakos… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer is one of the most complex and challenging human diseases, with rising incidences
and cancer-related deaths despite improved diagnosis and personalized treatment options …

A review of printable, flexible and tissue equivalent materials for ionizing radiation detection

JA Posar, M Petasecca, MJ Griffith - Flexible and Printed …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Advances in flexible and printable electronics have paved the way for large-area, and low-
cost wearable electronics that will revolutionize the way we detect and monitor ionizing …

A high‐Z inorganic scintillator–based detector for time‐resolved in vivo dosimetry during brachytherapy

EB Jørgensen, JG Johansen, J Overgaard… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose High‐dose rate (HDR) and pulsed‐dose rate (PDR) brachytherapy would benefit
from an independent treatment verification system to monitor treatment delivery and to detect …

Towards FBG-based shape sensing and sensor drift for a steerable needle

NJ Deaton, M Sheft, JP Desai - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Continuum manipulators contribute to promising improvements of minimally invasive
surgical procedures due to their compliance, small size, and ability to navigate anatomical …

Localization of reference points in electromagnetic tracking data and their application for treatment error detection in interstitial breast brachytherapy

C Dürrbeck, S Schuster, BC Sauer… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Electromagnetic tracking (EMT) is a promising technology that holds great
potential to advance patient‐specific pre‐treatment verification in interstitial brachytherapy …

Accuracy of an in vivo dosimetry‐based source tracking method for afterloading brachytherapy — A phantom study

EB Jørgensen, G Kertzscher, S Buus… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To report on the accuracy of an in vivo dosimetry (IVD)‐based source tracking (ST)
method for high dose rate (HDR) prostate brachytherapy (BT). Methods The ST was …

HDR prostate brachytherapy plan robustness and its effect on in‐vivo source tracking error thresholds: a multi‐institutional study

J Poder, D Koprivec, Y Dookie, A Howie… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of departmental planning
techniques on appropriate in‐vivo source tracking error thresholds for high dose rate (HDR) …

Towards steering a high-dose rate brachytherapy needle with a robotic steerable stylet

NJ Deaton, TA Brumfiel, M Sheft… - … on Medical Robotics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Steerable needles are desired for many applications within the medical field. One such
application is high-dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy. In this paper, an adaptive control system …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmark of the PenRed Monte Carlo framework for HDR brachytherapy

S Oliver, V Giménez-Alventosa, F Berumen… - … für Medizinische Physik, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose The purpose of this study is to validate the PenRed Monte Carlo framework for
clinical applications in brachytherapy. PenRed is a C++ version of Penelope Monte Carlo …