Authors: Ryan Andosca, Rojine T. Ariani, Peter Boyle, Minji Victoria Kim, Michael Vincent Lauria, Daniel A. Low, Claudia R. Miller, Drew Moghanaki, Louise Naumann, Dylan P. O'Connell, Ricky R Savjani
Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Radiation Oncology
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To demonstrate that 5DCT can provide an accurate internal tumor volume (ITV) while 4DCT cannot.
Methods: The 5DCT imaging protocol uses a motion model and 25 deformably registered free-bre...
Authors: Christopher A. Aguilera, Hunter Tillery, Cheyann Windsor
Affiliation: Oregon Health & Science University, Northwest Medical Physics Center
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To demonstrate a method of acquiring 4DCT commissioning datasets for deviceless 4DCT which relies on an image-based algorithm instead of an external breathing signal for 4D image binning. The...
Authors: Ryan Andosca, Igor Barjaktarevic, Peter Boyle, Jie Deng, Minji Victoria Kim, Michael Vincent Lauria, Daniel A. Low, Claudia R. Miller, Drew Moghanaki, Louise Naumann, Jack Neylon, Dylan P. O'Connell, Ricky R Savjani
Affiliation: Department of Pulmonology, University of California Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA, UCLA Radiation Oncology
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To develop a Hounsfield Unit ventilation-based correction method for use with model-based CT when used as a replacement for 4DCT.
Methods: The model-based CT we employ is termed 5DCT, whic...
Authors: Ryan Andosca, Peter Boyle, Minji Victoria Kim, Michael Vincent Lauria, Daniel A. Low, Claudia R. Miller, Drew Moghanaki, Louise Naumann, Dylan P. O'Connell, Ricky R Savjani
Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Radiation Oncology
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To demonstrate the performance of the model-based CT scanning protocol, 5DCT, as an alternative to 4DCT.
Methods: 5DCT imaging results for 242 patients were analyzed. Implementation of the...
Authors: Uriel Aura, Qing Chen, Arpit M. Chhabra, J Isabelle Choi, Chanda Guha, Meng Wei Ho, Sheng Huang, Minglei Kang, Stanislav Lazarev, Nancy Y Lee, Yang Lei, Haibo Lin, Hang Qi, Mahbubur Rahman, Charles B. Simone, Shouyi Wei, Irini Yacoub, Francis Yu, Anna Zhai, Ajay Zheng
Affiliation: DYN'R Medical System, New York Proton Center, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute&Hospital, Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Managing tumor motion during pencil beam scanning proton therapy remains challenging. This study investigated the feasibility and dosimetric benefits of Free-Breathing Respiratory-Gated Deliv...
Authors: William P. Donahue, Lauren Smith, Shu (Stella) Xing
Affiliation: Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To quantify the dosimetric uncertainty of end-exhale gating as a function of breathing pattern.
Methods: A Truebeam delivered AP square fields to EBT4 film placed in the Quasar MRI4D M...
Authors: Morgan Aire, Krystal M. Kirby, Olivia Magneson, David E. Solis
Affiliation: Louisiana State University, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
Abstract Preview: Purpose: For soft-tissue abdominal tumors, a 4D-MR may provide improved tumor tracking over the clinical standard 4D-CT. This project aims to optimize a clinically available 4D-MR pulse sequence to ac...
Authors: Amanda J. Deisher, Andrew YK Foong, Witold Matysiak, Jing Qian, Xueyan Tang, Erik J. Tryggestad, Mi Zhou
Affiliation: Mayo Clinic
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Phase gating is commonly employed to mitigate the impact of tumor motion in radiotherapy. Due to the machine-specific time delay between triggering and radiation delivery, the triggering sign...
Authors: Alanah M. Bergman, Marc W Deyell, Tania Karan, Jakob Marshall, Justin Poon, Devin Schellenberg, Steven Thomas, Richard Thompson
Affiliation: University of British Columbia, University of Alberta, BC Cancer
Abstract Preview: Purpose: A conservative approach to account for random errors due to intra-fraction cardiac and respiratory motion during cardiac radioablation (CR) is to define a margin equal to the amplitude of car...