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Autor:
William S. Ferris, Benjamin George, Kristin A. Plichta, Joseph M. Caster, Daniel E. Hyer, Blake R. Smith, Joel J. St-Aubin
Publikováno v:
Frontiers in Oncology, Vol 14 (2024)
IntroductionThis work presents a method to treat stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for pancreatic cancer on a magnetic resonance-guided linear accelerator (MR-linac) using daily adaptation, real-time motion monitoring, and abdominal compress
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/3b5cae2f7349438d96e788a398106327
Publikováno v:
Scientific Reports, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2022)
Abstract The advent of energy-specific collimation in pencil beam scanning (PBS) proton therapy has led to an improved lateral dose conformity for a variety of treatment sites, resulting in better healthy tissue sparing. Arc PBS delivery has also bee
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/f21fad8eaf84493aaf1722cf9937915a
Autor:
Daniel E. Hyer, PhD, Laura C. Bennett, MS, Theodore J. Geoghegan, MS, Martin Bues, PhD, Blake R. Smith, PhD
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Particle Therapy, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 73-83 (2021)
Purpose: The development of collimating technologies has become a recent focus in pencil beam scanning (PBS) proton therapy to improve the target conformity and healthy tissue sparing through field-specific or energy-layer–specific collimation. Giv
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/f79a369b70b54b7ba809b0c52f90b0a6
Autor:
Blake R. Smith, Jennifer D. Kos, Joseph M. Caster, Abigail E Besemer, Yusung Kim, Ryan T. Flynn, David Dunkerley, Bonnie S. Wagner, Sarah A. Strand
Publikováno v:
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
This work presents a comprehensive commissioning and workflow development process of a real‐time, ultrasound (US) image‐guided treatment planning system (TPS), a stepper and a US unit. To adequately benchmark the system, commissioning tasks were
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Particle Therapy
International Journal of Particle Therapy, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 73-83 (2021)
International Journal of Particle Therapy, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 73-83 (2021)
Purpose The development of collimating technologies has become a recent focus in pencil beam scanning (PBS) proton therapy to improve the target conformity and healthy tissue sparing through field-specific or energy-layer–specific collimation. Give
Autor:
Theodore J. Geoghegan, Jen Yu, Kaustubh A. Patwardhan, Patrick M. Hill, Blake R. Smith, Nicholas P. Nelson, Alonso N. Gutierrez, Daniel E. Hyer, Suresh Rana, Wesley S. Culberson, Ryan T. Flynn
Publikováno v:
Med Phys
Purpose The aim of this work was to develop and experimentally validate a Dynamic Collimation Monte Carlo (DCMC) simulation package specifically designed for the simulation of collimators in pencil beam scanning proton therapy (PBS-PT). The DCMC pack
Autor:
Amanda Boczkowski, Sarah Strand, David A. P. Dunkerley, Jeffrey E. Snyder, Joel St-Aubin, Daniel E. Hyer, Sridhar Yaddanapudi, Blake R. Smith
Publikováno v:
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
The Elekta Unity MR-linac utilizes daily magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for online plan adaptation. In the Unity workflow, adapt to position (ATP) and adapt to shape (ATS) treatment planning options are available which represent a virtual shift or
Autor:
Nicholas P Nelson, Wesley S Culberson, Daniel E Hyer, Theodore J Geoghegan, Kaustubh A Patwardhan, Blake R Smith, Ryan T Flynn, Jen Yu, Alonso N Gutiérrez, Patrick M Hill
Publikováno v:
Physics in Medicine & Biology. 68:055003
Objective. Pencil beam scanning (PBS) proton therapy target dose conformity can be improved with energy layer-specific collimation. One such collimator is the dynamic collimation system (DCS), which consists of four nickel trimmer blades that interce
Autor:
Blake R. Smith, Nicholas P. Nelson, Theodore J. Geoghegan, Kaustubh A. Patwardhan, Patrick M. Hill, Jen Yu, Alonso N. Gutiérrez, Bryan G. Allen, Daniel E. Hyer
Publikováno v:
Med Phys
PURPOSE: The radiobiological benefits afforded by spatially fractionated (GRID) radiation therapy pairs well with the dosimetric advantages of proton therapy. Inspired by the emergence of energy-layer specific collimators in pencil beam scanning (PBS
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::971f89ca223884b3810c5aca49660834
https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC9007854/
https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC9007854/
Publikováno v:
Medical Physics. 47:4491-4501
PURPOSE To investigate the variability and stability of brachytherapy source strength calibration coefficients for air-communicating and pressurized well-type ionization chambers among high-dose rate (HDR), low-dose rate (LDR), and electronic brachyt