Authors: Thomas Gee, Sofia Michopoulou, Amit Nautiyal
Affiliation: University Hospital Southampton
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Dosimetry software that is accessible to departments offers new opportunities to improve patient-specific dosimetry. Prior to clinical decision-making, it is essential to validate dosimetry s...
Authors: Girish Bal, Thomas I. Banks, Bin Cai, Yesenia Gonzalez, Zohaib Iqbal, Paul M. Medin, Rameshwar Prasad, Chenyang Shen, Robert Timmerman, Yuanyuan Zhang
Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, RefleXion Medical
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Each year more than one million pacemakers and 200k cardioverter-defibrillators are implanted in patients worldwide. The presence of a CIED introduces challenges to the delivery of radiation ...
Authors: Dirk Grunwald, Hans Herzog, Hidehiro Iida, N. Jon Shah, Usman Khalid, Manfred Lennartz, Philipp Lohmann, Ceren Memis, Tobias Meurer, Claudia Regio Brambilla, Jürgen Scheins, Lutz Tellmann, Christoph W. Lerche, Martin Wiesmann, Karl Ziemons
Affiliation: FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Uniklinik Aachen,, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH,, Central Institute for Engineering, Electronics and Analytics (ZEA-1), Forschungszentrum, Turku PET Center, Institute of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku,
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Quantitative brain studies with positron emission tomography (PET) often require an arterial input function (AIF), which traditionally requires arterial cannulation. However, this is invasive...
Authors: Muhammad Ramish Ashraf, Girish Bal, Daniel Pham, Murat Surucu
Affiliation: RefleXion Medical, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To determine minimum target size and FDG contrast thresholds for reliable Biology-guided Radiation Therapy (BgRT) delivery using a systematic phantom study.
Methods: A custom 3D-printed ph...
Authors: Martin Auerbach, Jeremie Calais, Johannes Czernin, Magnus Dahlbom, Zachary Ells, Adrien Holzgreve, Koichiro Kimura, Karam Masri, Catherine (Caffi) Meyer, David Sennung
Affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, UCLA, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Lutetium-177 PSMA SPECT/CT imaging offers the possibility of qualitative image analysis for tumor response assessment and quantitative image analysis for individualized dosimetry. However, th...
Authors: Ramin Abolfath, Alejandro Bertolet, Kofi M. Deh, Rao Khan, Vanessa Sanders, Daniel Suarez-Garcia
Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, University of Sevilla, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Howard University
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To compare the efficacy of 225Ac to 90Y for local cancer therapy by quantifying DNA damage using Monte Carlo simulations.
Methods: The TOPAS n-Bio toolkit was used to simulate the irradiat...
Authors: Girish Bal, Ke Colin Huang, Christopher F. Njeh, Oluwaseyi Oderinde, Yong Yue
Affiliation: Purdue University, RefleXion Medical, Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Biology-guided radiotherapy (BgRT) uses real-time positron emission tomography (PET) signals to precisely direct radiotherapy beamlets. The success of BgRT planning and delivery relies on PET...
Authors: Muhammad Ramish Ashraf, Girish Bal, Daniel Pham, Murat Surucu
Affiliation: RefleXion Medical, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To systematically evaluate the relationship between Activity Concentration (AC) obtained from the RefleXion PET-Linac with the maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) derived from a diagno...
Authors: Girish Bal, Thomas I. Banks, Bin Cai, Neil Desai, Aurelie Garant, Orhan Oz, Elizeva Phillips, Rameshwar Prasad, Chenyang Shen, Robert Timmerman
Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, RefleXion Medical
Abstract Preview: Purpose: This study reports findings from the first-in-human imaging-only trial evaluating the feasibility of using the novel PET tracer 68Ga-PSMA-11 (Illuccix) to guide external beam radiotherapy on ...
Authors: Angela J Da Silva, Andrew Groll, Manoj Narayanan, Jeffrey Schmall, Sanchit Sharma, Timothy Pok Chi Yeung
Affiliation: Reflexion Medical Inc,, RefleXion Medical
Abstract Preview: Purpose: PET-based biology-guided radiotherapy (BgRT) is a radiation therapy technique that uses PET imaging to deliver tracked dose to the tumor in real-time. We characterized the delivery accuracy o...
Authors: Ben Piacitelli, Celeste Winters
Affiliation: OHSU, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oregon Health & Science University
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To compare recovery coefficients measured with Lu-177 and Tc-99m with the goal of assessing accuracy of the Tc-99m surrogate method and comparing RC reproducibility between scanners of the sa...
Authors: David P. Adam, Bryan Bednarz, Tyler J Bradshaw, Wesley S. Culberson, Clifford G. Hammer, Sean Jollota, Ohyun Kwon, Jordan Teague
Affiliation: Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To quantify absorbed dose to water from 90YCl using thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLDs) and to acquire partial volume corrections for 90YCl positron emission tomography (PET).
Methods: Six...
Authors: Shahed Badiyan, Girish Bal, Thomas I. Banks, Bin Cai, Tu Dan, Aurelie Garant, Andrew R. Godley, Steve Jiang, Orhan Oz, Arnold Pompos, Rameshwar Prasad, Chenyang Shen, David Sher, Robert Timmerman, Kenneth Westover
Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, RefleXion Medical
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Biology-guided radiotherapy (BgRT) is a novel FDA-cleared technology for treating lung and bone tumors based on 18F-FDG PET uptake. This study summarizes the first-year experience treating 29...
Authors: Jon Burns, Angela J Da Silva, Andrew Groll, Gopinath Kuduvalli, Manoj Narayanan, Jeffrey Schmall, Sanchit Sharma, Timothy Pok Chi Yeung
Affiliation: Reflexion Medical Inc,, RefleXion Medical
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Biology-guided radiotherapy uses positron emissions from FDG-avid tumor volumes to provide a of the planned prescribed dose with high accuracy. The purpose of this work is to characterize BgR...
Authors: Jon Burns, Andrew Groll, Gopinath Kuduvalli, Thomas Laurence, Manoj Narayanan, Jeffrey Schmall, Sanchit Sharma
Affiliation: RefleXion Medical
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To simplify BgRT testing we have developed techniques that use 3D resin printed structures that can be filled with Ge-68 epoxy. This approach allows the development of highly complex, clinica...
Authors: David P. Adam, Allison Cartee, Eric C. Frey, Michael Ghaly, Bin He, Robert Francois Hobbs, Natalie Rose Kania, Ana Kiess, Ian Marsh, Bonnie N. C. President, Steven Rowe, George Sgouros, Phuoc Tran, Hao Wang
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University, Radiopharmaceutical Imaging and Dosimetry, LLC (Rapid), 2The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Advanced treatment paradigms combining SPECT/CT imageable, alpha emitting, radiopharmaceutical therapy (RPT) and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) can provide the potential of dose escala...
Authors: Joseph Barbiere, Joseph Hanley, Brett Lewis, Jay Mistry, Alois M. Ndlovu, Roland Teboh
Affiliation: Hackensack University Medical Center, HUMC, Jersey Shore University Medical Center
Abstract Preview: Purpose:
Quantitative PET-CT can evaluate clinical response to radiotherapy. For tumors less than approximately 3cm partial volume effects due to the poor PET resolution makes accurate measurement ...
Authors: Grant Gibbard, Chunhui Han, An Liu
Affiliation: RefleXion Medical, Department of Radiation Oncology, City of Hope National Medical Center
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of a new approach to streamline treatment planning for biology-guided radiotherapy (BgRT) of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-avid bony lesions on a BgRT machine with real-ti...