Report of AAPM TG 135: quality assurance for robotic radiosurgery

S Dieterich, C Cavedon, CF Chuang… - Medical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The task group (TG) for quality assurance for robotic radiosurgery was formed by the
American Association of Physicists in Medicine's Science Council under the direction of the …

Retrospective analysis of artifacts in four-dimensional CT images of 50 abdominal and thoracic radiotherapy patients

T Yamamoto, U Langner, BW Loo Jr, J Shen… - International Journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To quantify the type, frequency, and magnitude of artifacts in four-dimensional
(4D) CT images acquired using a multislice cine method. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Fifty …

Breathing guidance in radiation oncology and radiology: a systematic review of patient and healthy volunteer studies

S Pollock, R Keall, P Keall - Medical physics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The advent of image‐guided radiation therapy has led to dramatic improvements
in the accuracy of treatment delivery in radiotherapy. Such advancements have highlighted …

A longitudinal four‐dimensional computed tomography and cone beam computed tomography dataset for image‐guided radiation therapy research in lung cancer

GD Hugo, E Weiss, WC Sleeman, S Balik… - Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To describe in detail a dataset consisting of serial four‐dimensional computed
tomography (4DCT) and 4D cone beam CT (4DCBCT) images acquired during …

Inter-observer and intra-observer reliability for lung cancer target volume delineation in the 4D-CT era

AV Louie, G Rodrigues, J Olsthoorn, D Palma… - Radiotherapy and …, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To investigate inter-observer and intra-observer target
volume delineation (TVD) error in 4D-CT imaging of thoracic tumours. MATERIALS AND …

Reproducibility of four-dimensional computed tomography-based lung ventilation imaging

T Yamamoto, S Kabus, J Von Berg, C Lorenz… - Academic radiology, 2012 - Elsevier
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: A novel ventilation imaging method based on four-
dimensional (4D) computed tomography (CT) has been applied to the field of radiation …

4D CT lung ventilation images are affected by the 4D CT sorting method

T Yamamoto, S Kabus, C Lorenz, E Johnston… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Four‐dimensional (4D) computed tomography (CT) ventilation imaging is a novel
promising technique for lung functional imaging. The current standard 4D CT technique …

Interfractional positional variability of fiducial markers and primary tumors in locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer during audiovisual biofeedback radiotherapy

NO Roman, W Shepherd, N Mukhopadhyay… - International Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To evaluate implanted markers as a surrogate for tumor-based setup during
image-guided lung cancer radiotherapy with audiovisual biofeedback. METHODS AND …

Real-time profiling of respiratory motion: baseline drift, frequency variation and fundamental pattern change

D Ruan, JA Fessler, JM Balter… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
To precisely ablate tumor in radiation therapy, it is important to locate the tumor position in
real time during treatment. However, respiration-induced tumor motions are difficult to track …

Time-resolved volumetric MRI in MRI-guided radiotherapy: an in silico comparative analysis

C Paganelli, S Portoso, N Garau… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
MRI-treatment units enable 2D cine-MRI centred in the tumour for motion detection in
radiotherapy, but they lack 3D information due to spatio-temporal limits. To derive time …