MRI-only treatment planning: benefits and challenges

AM Owrangi, PB Greer… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past decade, the application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has increased,
and there is growing evidence to suggest that improvements in the accuracy of target …

[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 …

The feasibility of a dose painting procedure to treat prostate cancer based on mpMR images and hierarchical clustering

SM Rezaeijo, B Hashemi, B Mofid, M Bakhshandeh… - Radiation …, 2021 - Springer
Background We aimed to assess the feasibility of a dose painting (DP) procedure, known as
simultaneous integrated boost intensity modulated radiation Therapy (SIB-IMRT), for treating …

Quantitative 3T multiparametric MRI of benign and malignant prostatic tissue in patients with and without local recurrent prostate cancer after external‐beam radiation …

C Dinis Fernandes, PJ van Houdt… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Post‐radiotherapy locally recurrent prostate cancer (PCa) patients are
candidates for focal salvage treatment. Multiparametric MRI (mp‐MRI) is attractive for tumor …

Repeatability of hypoxia dose painting by numbers based on EF5-PET in head and neck cancer

P Wright, MR Arnesen, PI Lønne, S Suilamo… - Acta …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background Hypoxia dose painting is a radiotherapy technique to increase the dose to
hypoxic regions of the tumour. Still, the clinical effect relies on the reproducibility of the …

Towards optimal heterogeneous prostate radiotherapy dose prescriptions based on patient‐specific or population‐based biological features

Y Zhao, A Haworth, HM Reynolds, SG Williams… - Medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Escalation of prescribed dose in prostate cancer (PCa) radiotherapy enables
improvement in tumor control at the expense of increased toxicity. Opportunities for …

Patient‐specific voxel‐level dose prescription for prostate cancer radiotherapy considering tumor cell density and grade distribution

Y Zhao, A Haworth, HM Reynolds, EJ Her… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background In prostate radiation therapy, recent studies have indicated a benefit in
increasing the dose to intraprostatic lesions (IPL) compared with standard whole gland …

[HTML][HTML] Repeatability of radiotherapy dose-painting prescriptions derived from a multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging model of glioblastoma infiltration

C Brighi, N Verburg, ES Koh, A Walker, C Chen… - Physics and Imaging in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Glioblastoma (GBM) patients have a dismal prognosis. Tumours
typically recur within months of surgical resection and post-operative chemoradiation …

Voxel-level biological optimisation of prostate IMRT using patient-specific tumour location and clonogen density derived from mpMRI

EJ Her, A Haworth, HM Reynolds, Y Sun, A Kennedy… - Radiation …, 2020 - Springer
Aims This study aimed to develop a framework for optimising prostate intensity-modulated
radiotherapy (IMRT) based on patient-specific tumour biology, derived from multiparametric …

Probabilistic target definition and planning in patients with prostate cancer

P Ferjančič, UA Van der Heide… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Intro. Current radiation therapy (RT) planning guidelines handle uncertainties in RT using
geometric margins. This approach is simple to use but oversimplifies complex underlying …