Image-guided radiation therapy
Optimization of treatment planning workflow and tumor coverage during daily adaptive magnetic resonance image guided radiation therapy (MR-IGRT) of pancreatic cancer
... Background: To simplify the adaptive treatment planning workflow while achieving the optimal tumor-dose coverage in pancreatic cancer patients undergoing daily adaptive magnetic resonance image guided ...
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Point Reg Net: Invariant Features for Point Cloud Registration Using in Image Guided Radiation Therapy
... Registration of pre- and intra-interventional data is one of the enabling tech- nologies for image-guided radiation therapy, radio surgery, and interventional radiology. Different combinations ...
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Temporal regularization of ultrasound-based liver motion estimation for image-guided radiation therapy.
... Motion estimation in long ultrasound sequences for controlling linear accelerator gating and tracking will require methods which provide high confidence in the output data stream. The system must continually monitor the ...
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Comparison of different registration methods and landmarks for image-guided radiation therapy of pulmonary tumors
... 3]. Radiation therapy (RT) is an important treatment modality for lung cancer [4, ...intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) [6, 7]. Image-guided radiation ...
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Successful treatment of a T4 lung tumor with vertebral body invasion using fiducial markers in the thoracic spine for image guided radiation therapy: A case report
... Fiducial marker matching is a method of image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) used to maximize set-up accu- racy. Radiopaque markers are implanted in or near the tumor site and can be imaged ...
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Quality assurance for image-guided radiation therapy utilizing CT-based technologies: A report of the AAPM TG-179
... for image-guidance 4,5 while kilovoltage CBCT (kV-CBCT) provides high contrast volumetric data- sets using imaging components mounted orthogonally with respect to the treatment ...intensity-modulated ...
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Combined Ultrasound and Cone Beam CT Improves Target Segmentation for Image Guided Radiation Therapy in Uterine Cervix Cancer.
... every image analyzed, a single contour was generated by combining the three contours from each of the observers in the ‘Experienced’ cohort using Simultaneous Truth and Performance Level Estimation (STAPLE) 30 ...
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Feasibility of Gold Fiducial Markers as a Surrogate for Gross Tumor Volume Position in Image-Guided Radiation Therapy of Rectal Cancer
... beam radiation therapy of rectal cancer is based on bony anatomy using cone beam computed tomography ...e guided radiation therapy systems could be used to perform setup correction ...
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Disposable Condenser Dosimeter Using a Skin Insulated Mini Substrate with a Silicon X Ray Diode in Image Guided Radiation Therapy
... Lately, we are interested in an integral dosimeter using the Si-XD for measur- ing patient-skin doses in radiation therapy. Since various X-ray tubes are used clinically to improve the accuracy of dose ...
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AGuIX nanoparticles as a promising platform for image-guided radiation therapy
... Animal Radiation Research Platform (SARRP) operated at 220 kVp ...in radiation therapy while the use of flattening filter free beams (FFF) is still relatively novel to clinical appli- ...
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On voxel-by-voxel accumulated dose for prostate radiation therapy using deformable image registration.
... such image guided radiotherapy treatment system that incorporates a megavoltage fan beam CT (MVCT) scanner with fan-beam treatment delivery, allowing volumetric images of the anatomy to be obtained ...
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Image-guided Pro-angiogenic Therapy in Diabetic Stroke Mouse Models Using a Multi-modal Nanoprobe
... Current clinical techniques used to assess ther- apeutic efficacy in patients with ischemia, such as angiography and blood flow, could be valuable when alterations occur in large arteries, which form during the later ...
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy: A "Game Changer" for Prostate Treatment?
... Multiple methods are available for autosegmentation, with the most basic techniques using features of imaging alone such as grayscale measures to create contours. However, the more sophisticated, rapidly evolving ...
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Strategies for Image-Guided Therapy, Surgery, and Drug Delivery Using Photoacoustic Imaging
... were overlooked for many years, but have since been studied extensively, and the physics of the PA effect were expounded by Rosencwaig and Gersho, of Bell Labs, for photoacoustic spectroscopy [31]. They predicted its ...
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Laparoscopic fluorescence image-guided photothermal therapy enhances cancer diagnosis and treatment
... The biodistribution of gold within mice was determined using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Blood, tumor sites and organs such as liver, spleen, kidneys, lungs, heart and brain were harvested for ...
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Towards MRI guided radiation therapy of regional lymph nodes in breast cancer patients
... Regional radiation therapy (RT) for breast cancer patients with a tumour-positive sentinel node biopsy is increasingly preferred over axillary lymph node ...intrafraction image guidance which may ...
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Functional Image-Guided Radiotherapy Planning in Respiratory- Gated Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) for Lung Cancer Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
... Title Functional Image-Guided Radiotherapy Planning in Respiratory- Gated Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy.. (IMRT) for Lung Cancer Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disea[r] ...
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Minimally invasive image-guided therapy for inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma: What is the evidence today?
... In laser ablation, also frequently called laser-induced thermotherapy (LITT), a percutaneously placed optical fiber delivers laser beams into the target tumor [93]. The energy from the photons absorbed in the tissue ...
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Phospholipid Oxygen Microbubbles for Image-Guided Therapy
... In recent work, oxygen microbubbles (OMB) have been shown to oxygenate hypoxic tumors, increase radio-sensitivity and improve tumor control by radiation therapy. Compared to intra-tumoral injection, ...
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Clinical Outcomes of Image Guided Adaptive Hypofractionated Weekly Radiation Therapy for Bladder Cancer in Patients Unsuitable for Radical Treatment.
... (cystectomy, radiation therapy, or transurethral resection alone) for older patients significantly reduces risk of death from MIBC compared with watchful waiting (2, ...
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