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Radiation therapy

Radiotherapy, particle therapy, ultrasound therapy and more

Research & Innovation News

Dosimetry predicts memory impairment

How does the hippocampal dose during cranial radiotherapy impact long-term memory?

Robust MCO eases IMPT planning

Including robustness in multicriteria optimization helps create robust plans for intensity-modulated proton therapy.

Ultralow-dose CT enables PET correction

Ultralow-dose CT scans can be used for attenuation correction and respiratory gating of PET scans.

Innovation: patent applications review

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

Video report: Uwe Oelfke explains how image guidance can address the challenges of motion during radiotherapy.

Laser-based acceleration: designs on proton therapy

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

Dose-guided radiation therapy shifts the emphasis from patient positioning to dosimetric considerations, explains UCSF's Jean Pouliot.

Ultrasound tackles radiotherapy guidance

Ultrasound imaging could provide real-time, soft-tissue visualization during radiotherapy delivery.

Physics in Medicine & Biology

Fast Monte Carlo simulation for patient-specific CT/CBCT imaging dose calculation

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

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

Victor Bom, Leila Joulaeizadeh and Freek Beekman 2012 Phys. Med. Biol. 57 297