The future of MRI in radiation therapy: Challenges and opportunities for the MR community

RJ Goodburn, MEP Philippens… - Magnetic resonance …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Radiation therapy is a major component of cancer treatment pathways worldwide. The main
aim of this treatment is to achieve tumor control through the delivery of ionizing radiation …

Ensemble learning and personalized training for the improvement of unsupervised deep learning‐based synthetic CT reconstruction

S Olberg, BS Choi, I Park, X Liang, JS Kim… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background The growing adoption of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)‐guided radiation
therapy (RT) platforms and a focus on MRI‐only RT workflows have brought the technical …

Real-time prediction of stomach motions based upon gastric contraction and breathing models

Y Zhang, Y Cao, R Kashani… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Precision radiation therapy requires managing motions of organs at risk that occur
during treatment. While methods have been developed for real-time respiratory motion …

Development of an abdominal dose accumulation tool and assessments of accumulated dose in gastrointestinal organs

Y Zhang, J Balter, J Dow, Y Cao… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Online adaptive radiotherapy has demonstrated improved dose conformality in
response to inter-fraction geometric variations in the abdomen. The dosimetric impact of …

A model for gastrointestinal tract motility in a 4D imaging phantom of human anatomy

E Subashi, P Segars, H Veeraraghavan… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Gastrointestinal (GI) tract motility is one of the main sources for intra/inter‐
fraction variability and uncertainty in radiation therapy for abdominal targets. Models for GI …