Radiation therapy
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Research & Innovation News
Dosimetry predicts memory impairment
Feb 2, 2012
How does the hippocampal dose during cranial radiotherapy impact long-term memory?
Robust MCO eases IMPT planning
Feb 1, 2012
Including robustness in multicriteria optimization helps create robust plans for intensity-modulated proton therapy.
Ultralow-dose CT enables PET correction
Jan 30, 2012
Ultralow-dose CT scans can be used for attenuation correction and respiratory gating of PET scans.
Innovation: patent applications review
Jan 27, 2012
Our survey of the latest international patent applications in radiation therapy reviews filings from Accuray, Philips, Xoft and more.
Opinion
Image guidance: the way forward for radiotherapy
Dec 9, 2011
Video report: Uwe Oelfke explains how image guidance can address the challenges of motion during radiotherapy.
Laser-based acceleration: designs on proton therapy
Nov 10, 2011
The LIGHT collaboration is investigating laser-based particle acceleration for applications such as proton therapy. Project leader Markus Roth from TU Darmstadt discusses recent progress.
DGRT: it's the dose that matters
Oct 11, 2011
Dose-guided radiation therapy shifts the emphasis from patient positioning to dosimetric considerations, explains UCSF's Jean Pouliot.
Ultrasound tackles radiotherapy guidance
Sep 19, 2011
Ultrasound imaging could provide real-time, soft-tissue visualization during radiotherapy delivery.
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Physics in Medicine & Biology
Fast Monte Carlo simulation for patient-specific CT/CBCT imaging dose calculation
Jan 30, 2012
Xun Jia, Hao Yan, Xuejun Gu and Steve B Jiang 2012 Phys. Med. Biol. 57 577
Including robustness in multi-criteria optimization for intensity-modulated proton therapy
Jan 16, 2012
Wei Chen, Jan Unkelbach, Alexei Trofimov, Thomas Madden, Hanne Kooy, Thomas Bortfeld and David Craft 2012 Phys. Med. Biol. 57 591
Real-time prompt gamma monitoring in spot-scanning proton therapy using imaging through a knife-edge-shaped slit
Dec 16, 2011
Victor Bom, Leila Joulaeizadeh and Freek Beekman 2012 Phys. Med. Biol. 57 297
Comparative study of temperature measurements in ex vivo swine muscle and a tissue-mimicking material during high intensity focused ultrasound exposures
Dec 5, 2011
S Maruvada, Y Liu, W F Pritchard, B A Herman and G R Harris 2012 Phys. Med. Biol. 57 1