Authors: B. Gino Fallone, Keith D. Wachowicz, Mark G. Wright, Jihyun Yun
Affiliation: Medical Physics Division, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Dept. of Medical Physics, Cross Cancer Institute and Dept. of Oncology, University of Alberta, Medical Physics Division, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta and Department of Medical Physics, Cross Cancer Institute, Dept. of Medical Physics, Cross Cancer Institute and Dept. of Oncology, University of Alberta; MagnetTx Oncology Solutions, www.magnetTX.com
Abstract Preview: Purpose: This work focusses on a hybrid Principal Component Analysis (PCA) based MR acceleration method for prospectively acquired undersampled data on a hybrid MR-Linac system for real-time target-tr...
Authors: Zhitao Dai, Riao Dao, Xuanfeng Ding, Qingkun Fan, Yajun Jia, Gang Liu, Gang Peng, Yujia Qian, Hong Quan, Kunyu Yang, Sheng Zhang, Lewei Zhao
Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Corewellhealth William Beaumont University Hospital, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Cancer Hospital Shenzhen Hospital, School of Physics and Technology,Wuhan University, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital & Shenzhen HospitalοΌ Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Lattice radiation therapy (LRT) is an innovative three-dimensional(3D) implementation type of spatially fractionated radiation therapy (SFRT). This study aims to develop a novel spot-scanning...
Authors: Shengwen Deng, Sven L. Gallo, Robert S. Jones, David W. Jordan, Arashdeep Kaur, Aishwarya M. Kulkarni, Quibai Li, William R.M. Pedersen
Affiliation: Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center; School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Radiology, Radiation Safety, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Radiation Safety, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center; School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University; Department of Radiology, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
Abstract Preview: Purpose:
Y-90 (Yttrium) SIRT radioembolization takes advantage of delivering localized radiation to the liver. Pre-treatment dosimetry is highly dependent on accurate MAA mapping, which may have an...
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: J. Daniel Bourland, Christina K Cramer, Justin M. Napolitano, James D. Ververs
Affiliation: Wake Forest University School of Medicine
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Brain metastases (BM) can be treated with linear accelerator (LINAC)-based stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). Treatment planning for this modality has evolved over time; treatment plans typi...
Authors: Mercy Iyabode Akerele, Yuni K. Dewaraja, Richard Laforest, Justin K. Mikell, Wendy Siman, Allan Thomas, Daniel Thorek
Affiliation: University of Michigan, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Washington University School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Post-therapy quantitative 90Y SPECT and PET measurements show ~25% lower activity than vendor-reported values for glass microspheres. We hypothesize this discrepancy is due to bremsstrahlung ...
Authors: Brankica Andelic, Young-Bin Cho, Tara M. Gray, Andrew Robert Hadfield, Hakan Nordstrom
Affiliation: Elekta, Cleveland Clinic
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Spatially Fractionated Radiotherapy (SFRT) requires highly modulated dose distribution inside a tumor volume optimized using sets of planning structure of spheres in a lattice arrangement. To...
Authors: Weiliang Du
Affiliation: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Winston-Lutz (WL) tests are often used to localize the radiation isocenter of a linac. The selection of gantry and collimator angles can affect the accuracy of the resulting isocenter. The ef...
Authors: Stephen Araujo, Jing-Tzyh Alan Chiang, Cynthia E. Davis, Eri Haneda, Andrew Karellas, Thomas C Larsen, William Ross, Hsin Wu Tseng, Srinivasan Vedantham, Pengwei Wu
Affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Arizona, GE Aerospace Research, Department of Medical Imaging, The University of Arizona, GE HealthCare Technology & Innovation Center
Abstract Preview: Purpose: The purpose of this work is to describe the design and development of a newly developed upright-geometry dedicated breast CT system and to quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate its imagin...
Authors: Giavanna Luisa Jadick, Patrick J La Riviere, Cailey Riggs
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Abstract Preview: Purpose: We explore the accuracy of physics models for propagation-based x-ray phase-contrast imaging (XPCI) with an eye to future clinical implementation, providing a practical assessment of detectio...
Authors: Brankica Andelic, Young-Bin Cho, Tara M. Gray, Bingqi Guo, Andrew Robert Hadfield, Hakan Nordstrom, Jacob Scott, John Suh, Nara Yoon
Affiliation: Adelphi University, Elekta, Cleveland Clinic
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To investigate the biological effect of Spatially Fractionated Radiation Therapy (SFRT) within Gamma-Knife (GK) using retrospective planning for brain metastases patients. This study presents...