Image guided adaptive external beam radiation therapy for cervix cancer: Evaluation of a clinically implemented plan-of-the-day technique

M Buschmann, K Majercakova, A Sturdza… - … für Medizinische Physik, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Radiotherapy for cervix cancer is challenging in patients exhibiting large daily
changes in the pelvic anatomy, therefore adaptive treatments (ART) have been proposed …

Benchmarking of deformable image registration for multiple anatomic sites using digital data sets with ground-truth deformation vector fields

L Shi, Q Chen, S Barley, Y Cui, L Shang, J Qiu… - Practical Radiation …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of deformable image registration (DIR)
algorithms using data sets with different levels of ground-truth deformation vector fields …

ART for head and neck patients: on the difference between VMAT and IMPT

J Góra, P Kuess, M Stock, P Andrzejewski… - Acta …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Anatomical changes in the head-and-neck (H&N) region during the course of treatment can
cause deteriorated dose distributions. Different replanning strategies were investigated for …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-modality imaging: a software fusion and image-guided therapy perspective

W Birkfellner, M Figl, H Furtado, A Renner… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
With the introduction of computers in medical imaging, which were popularized with the
presentation of Hounsfield's ground-breaking work in 1971, numerical image reconstruction …

A neural network approach for fast, automated quantification of DIR performance

J Neylon, Y Min, DA Low, A Santhanam - Medical physics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose A critical step in adaptive radiotherapy (ART) workflow is deformably registering the
simulation CT with the daily or weekly volumetric imaging. Quantifying the deformable image …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of CBCT conversion methods for dose calculation in the head and neck region

S Irmak, D Georg, W Lechner - Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik, 2020 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to compare different methods of CBCT conversion respect to
dose calculation accuracy. Twelve head and neck cancer patients treated with VMAT using …

[HTML][HTML] MRI based volumetric measurements of vestibular schwannomas in patients with neurofibromatosis type 2: comparison of three different software tools

P Kollmann, VF Mautner, J Koeppen, R Wenzel… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Neurofibromatosis type 2 is a neurogenetic disorder with an incidence of about 1: 33.000.
Hallmarks are bilateral benign vestibular schwannomas, which can lead to deafness or …

Suitability of propagated contours for adaptive replanning for head and neck radiotherapy

D Nash, AL Palmer, M van Herk, A McWilliam… - Physica Medica, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose Adaptive radiotherapy relies on rapid recontouring for replanning. Contour
propagation offers workflow efficiencies, but the impact of using unedited propagated OAR …

A multiparametric method to assess the MIM deformable image registration algorithm

S Calusi, G Labanca, M Zani, M Casati… - Journal of applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A quantitative evaluation of the performances of the deformable image registration (DIR)
algorithm implemented in MIM‐Maestro was performed using multiple similarity indices. Two …

Gradient maintenance: a new algorithm for fast online replanning

EE Ahunbay, XA Li - Medical Physics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Clinical use of online adaptive replanning has been hampered by the unpractically
long time required to delineate volumes based on the image of the day. The authors …