[HTML][HTML] Imaging dose from cone beam computed tomography in radiation therapy

P Alaei, E Spezi - Physica Medica, 2015 - Elsevier
Imaging dose in radiation therapy has traditionally been ignored due to its low magnitude
and frequency in comparison to therapeutic dose used to treat patients. The advent of …

Image guidance doses delivered during radiotherapy: Quantification, management, and reduction: Report of the AAPM Therapy Physics Committee Task Group 180

GX Ding, P Alaei, B Curran, R Flynn… - Medical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background With radiotherapy having entered the era of image guidance, or image‐guided
radiation therapy (IGRT), imaging procedures are routinely performed for patient positioning …

Daily versus weekly prostate cancer image guided radiation therapy: phase 3 multicenter randomized trial

R de Crevoisier, MA Bayar, P Pommier… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose The optimal frequency of prostate cancer image guided radiation therapy (IGRT)
has not yet been clearly identified. This study sought to compare the safety and efficacy of …

Dosimetry of CBCT: methods, doses and clinical consequences

JR Sykes, R Lindsay, G Iball… - Journal of Physics …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The use of Cone beam CT (CBCT) systems for Image Guided Radiotherapy is rapidly
expanding in the developed world. With its use comes concern for the increased risks of …

Radiation exposure to patients from image guidance procedures and techniques to reduce the imaging dose

GX Ding, P Munro - Radiotherapy and Oncology, 2013 - Elsevier
Purpose To compare imaging doses from MV images, kV radiographs, and kV-CBCT and
describe methods to reduce the dose to patient's organs using existing on-board imaging …

Cone beam CT (CBCT) based synthetic CT generation using deep learning methods for dose calculation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma radiotherapy

X Xue, Y Ding, J Shi, X Hao, X Li, D Li… - … in Cancer Research …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: To generate synthetic CT (sCT) images with high quality from CBCT and planning
CT (pCT) for dose calculation by using deep learning methods. Methods: 169 NPC patients …

Image-guided radiotherapy for prostate cancer with cone beam CT: dosimetric effects of imaging frequency and PTV margin

H Ariyaratne, H Chesham, J Pettingell… - Radiotherapy and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background and purpose This study assesses the effect of frequency of cone beam CT
(CBCT) verification imaging on dose–volume parameters during image-guided radiotherapy …

Monte Carlo simulation and patient dosimetry for a kilovoltage cone‐beam CT unit

P Downes, R Jarvis, E Radu, I Kawrakow… - Medical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The purpose of this work is to characterize the x‐ray volume imager (XVI), the cone‐
beam computed tomography (CBCT) unit mounted on the Elekta Synergy linac, with F1 …

Patient-specific three-dimensional concomitant dose from cone beam computed tomography exposure in image-guided radiotherapy

E Spezi, P Downes, R Jarvis, E Radu… - International Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: The purpose of the present study was to quantify the concomitant dose received
by patients undergoing cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) scanning in different …

Monte Carlo simulation of an x‐ray volume imaging cone beam CT unit

E Spezi, P Downes, E Radu, R Jarvis - Medical physics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
In this work the authors characterized the radiation field produced by a kilovolt cone beam
computed tomography (CBCT) unit integrated in the Elekta Synergy linear accelerator. The x …