Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)
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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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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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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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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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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Disposable Condenser Dosimeter Using a Skin Insulated Mini Substrate with a Silicon X Ray Diode in Image Guided Radiation Therapy
... DOI: 10.4236/ijmpcero.2018.71004 46 Int. J. Medical Physics, Clinical Engineering and Radiation Oncology Onagawa, J. (2013) Low-Dose-Rate Computed Tomography System Utilizing 25 mm/s-Scan Silicon X-Ray Diode and ...
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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
... A limitation of this study is the small number of patients. Therefore, the determined margins and the observed dif- ference between proximal and distal tumors would need confirmation in a larger study. Because only 3 ...
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Combined Ultrasound and Cone Beam CT Improves Target Segmentation for Image Guided Radiation Therapy in Uterine Cervix Cancer.
... US image quality, which may explain why the relationship between bladder size and US image quality was only weakly detected in this ...CBCT image quality, which was reflected by the low, ...
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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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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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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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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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Clinical Outcomes of Image Guided Adaptive Hypofractionated Weekly Radiation Therapy for Bladder Cancer in Patients Unsuitable for Radical Treatment.
... daily radiation therapy treatment were ...day” radiation therapy approach was used, treating the whole (empty) bladder to 36 Gy in 6 weekly ...during radiation ther- apy, at 6 and 12 ...
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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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Towards MRI guided radiation therapy of regional lymph nodes in breast cancer patients
... an image every 0.6s to every 1.2s). Subsequently, the image was cropped to a smaller rectangular image to decrease image size for faster ...The image was resampled with cubic ...
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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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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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Radiologists’ leading position in image-guided therapy
... of image acquisition and quality assurance of imaging investigations (such as CT, PET-CT and MRI) used for EORTC ...also radiation protection in IGT presented by CIRSE, are already well established and ...
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