Authors: Ulrich Langner, Timothy Leech, Oleksii Semeniuk
Affiliation: Brown University Health
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To standardize and improve quality of the chart review process, while simultaneously increasing the efficiency of the physicist, by allowing them to allocate more time for other items.
Met...
Authors: Chia-Ho Hua, Jirapat Likitlersuang, Jinsoo Uh
Affiliation: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Abstract Preview: Purpose: AI-based fast MRI, which reconstructs images from undersampled k-space data, has not yet been tailored for RT planning. This study aims to evaluate the fast MRI performance of our recently pr...
Authors: Alejandro Bertolet, Jose Antonio Lopez-Valverde, Victor V. Onecha, Daniel Puerta
Affiliation: Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad de Granada, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Besides its superior dose conformity, proton therapy induces greater damage to tissue than conventional radiotherapies. This increased damage is usually quantified through the concept of rela...
Authors: Liliana Berube, Randall J Kimple, Kwangok P Nickel, Hannah Sondreal
Affiliation: UW Madison
Abstract Preview: Purpose: The fidelity of patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) is crucial for their application in translational research, as it ensures that these models accurately retain the properties of the original ...
Authors: Ali Ajdari, Thomas R. Bortfeld, Zhongxing Liao, Mara Schubert, Katrin Teichert
Affiliation: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department Of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Fraunhofer ITWM
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Radiotherapy (RT) treatment planning often involves solving a multi-criteria optimization (MCO) problem. Conventionally, MCO considers a set of generic (population-wide) dosimetric criteria, ...
Authors: Eric Aliotta, Michalis Aristophanous, Joseph O. Deasy, Bill Diplas, Milan Grkovski, James Han, Vaios Hatzoglou, Jeho Jeong, Nancy Y Lee, Ramesh Paudyal, Nadeem Riaz, Heiko Schoder, Amita Shukla-Dave
Affiliation: Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To forecast radiotherapy treatment response for head and neck cancer (HNC) using multimodality imaging and personalized radiobiological modeling.
Methods: Multi-modality imaging data from ...
Authors: Arezoo Modiri, Robabeh Rahimi, Akira SaiToh, Amit Sawant
Affiliation: Maryland University Baltimore, University of Maryland, University of Maryland in Baltimore, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Sojo University
Abstract Preview: Purpose: It has been a longstanding challenge to optimize the daily schedule of radiation treatment rooms toward minimum patient wait times, efficient use of clinical staff and reduced running cost of...
Authors: Lu Jiang, Ke Sheng
Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California at San Francisco, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco
Abstract Preview: Purpose:
Conventional radiotherapy treatment planning is guided by a set of generic objectives that are unspecific to patient anatomy. Treatment planning thus heavily relies on the planner’s experi...