Authors: Julia Bauer, Tianxue Du, Katia Parodi, Marco Pinto, Thomas Tessonnier
Affiliation: Department of Medical Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center (HIT), Department of Radiation Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Department of Medical Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich)
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Carbon ion therapy could benefit from range verification due to its sensitivity to range uncertainties. Positron emission tomography (PET) aids in this and comparing irradiation-induced PE...
Authors: Thomas R. Bortfeld, Prof. Elisabetta De Bernardi, Tianxue Du, Beatrice Foglia, Chiara Gianoli, Takamitsu Masuda, Katia Parodi, Marco Pinto, Boon-Keng Kevin Teo, Yunhe Xie
Affiliation: Department Of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Medical Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Department of Medical Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), University of Pennsylvania, Department of Experimental Physics - Medical Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München
Abstract Preview: Purpose: The full potential offered by protons in clinical practice is limited by range uncertainties. One possibility for monitoring is through secondary prompt gammas (PG). PG emission along the pen...
Authors: Evan Barber, Gloria P. Beyer, Matthew J. Daniels, Callum Hartley, Jordi Saez, Philip Wheeler
Affiliation: TrueNorth Medical Physics, Department of Radiotherapy Physics, Velindre University NHS Trust, Department of Radiation Oncology, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Medical Physics Services, LLC
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To quantify inter-system and inter-layer dosimetric leaf gap (DLG) variations in Halcyon/Ethos multileaf collimators (MLCs) using custom sweeping gap tests, and to evaluate implications for c...
Authors: Wouter Crijns, Frederik Maes, Loes Vandenbroucke, Liesbeth Vandewinckele
Affiliation: Department of Oncology, Laboratory of Experimental Radiotherapy, KU Leuven; Department of Radiation Oncology, UZ Leuven, Department ESAT/PSI, KU Leuven; Medical Imaging Research Center, UZ Leuven, Department of Oncology, Laboratory of Experimental Radiotherapy, KU Leuven
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To explore intentional deep overfit learning (IDOL) to exploit the initial treatment plan to predict an adaptive radiotherapy plan.
Methods: A conditional generative adversarial network is...
Authors: Caroline Cheney, Patricia G Collins, Allen R. Goode, Preston Le, Andrew M. Polemi, Angela Snyder
Affiliation: UVA Health, Atirix Medical Systems
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Optimize ongoing quality control (QC) for radiographic (DR) and fluoroscopic (FL) systems by identifying metrics most sensitive to hardware disruptions among regional noise, pooled noise, sig...
Authors: Young-Bin Cho, Jacob Scott, Nara Yoon
Affiliation: Adelphi University, Cleveland Clinic
Abstract Preview: Purpose: The immune system plays a critical role in determining cancer prognosis. Based on our prior study (Cho et al., 2023) about the bystander effect induced by immune responses in spatially design...