Cancer

Physical dose validation of dynamic treatment for Gamma Knife radiosurgery

Background: Dynamic treatment in Gamma Knife (GK) radiosurgery systems delivers radiation continuously with couch movement, as opposed …

Plan assessment metrics for dose painting in stereotactic radiosurgery

PURPOSE As radiotherapy treatment precision increases with advancements in imaging and radiation delivery, dose painting treatment …

Cancer treatment planning

Automating treatment protocol selection and the design and validation of radiation treatment plans to better treat cancer

Fluence map optimization in intensity-modulated radiation therapy treatment planning

Guided undersampling classification for automated radiation therapy quality assurance of prostate cancer treatment

Purpose: To test the use of well-studied and widely used classification methods alongside newly developed data-filtering techniques …

Predictive modeling of dosimetric quality assurance in radiation therapy

Volumetric arc therapy (VMAT) is a type of cancer treatment where radiation is delivered continuously from a moving beam source. Due to …

Predictive modeling of dosimetric quality assurance in radiation therapy

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Incorporation of delivery times in stereotactic radiosurgery treatment optimization

Although the use of mathematical optimization techniques can greatly improve the quality of treatment plans in various radiation …

Optimization methods for high dose rate brachytherapy treatment planning

Optimization approaches for treatment planning in two novel high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy techniques, direction-modulation …

Robotic path-finding in inverse treatment planning for stereotactic radiosurgery with continuous dose delivery

Purpose: Continuous dose delivery in radiation therapy treatments has been shown to decrease total treatment time while improving the …