Rectal air did not compromise prostate online adaptive radiotherapy robustness
Rectal air or air-filled balloons did not cause clinically relevant dose increases when posterior tissue shifts stayed within 5 millimetres.
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Feature-wise scanning network improved liver radiotherapy segmentation efficiency
Feature-wise scanning Mamba improved liver radiotherapy segmentation accuracy while reducing model size and inference time.
Unshielded silicon diode detector supported clinical electron beam dosimetry
The SunSILICON detector directly measured electron beam depth doses, profiles, and output factors with close agreement to reference detectors.
Deep learning dose prediction met clinical constraints in esophageal radiotherapy planning
A conditional generative adversarial network predicted clinically acceptable esophageal radiotherapy dose distributions, but systematic target underdosage limited clinical use.
Cherenkov light tracked gold implant motion with submillimetre accuracy in water
Cherenkov light imaging tracked gold implant motion in water with submillimetre accuracy during static and volumetric modulated arc therapy delivery.
Upright computed tomography showed stable numbers for proton therapy planning
Upright computed tomography showed stable computed tomography numbers and greater than 99% proton dose gamma agreement versus conventional computed tomography.
Computed tomography geometric distortion was measurable across radiotherapy planning scanners
All eight radiotherapy planning computed tomography scanners showed measurable geometric distortion, with maximum values up to 1.88 millimetres.
Automated report-based chart checking detected residual errors after physics review
An automated report-based chart checker detected residual errors in 37.1% of manually reviewed external beam radiotherapy plans.
Simultaneous integrated boost chemoradiotherapy was linked to better disease-free survival in anal cancer
Simultaneous integrated boost radiotherapy was associated with 96% two-year disease-free survival versus 70% with sequential boost in anal cancer.
Daily adaptive prostate stereotactic body radiotherapy improved target coverage
Daily cone-beam computed tomography-based adaptation improved prostate stereotactic body radiotherapy target coverage, but organ-at-risk dose benefits were inconsistent.
Thermo-optical surface guidance supported breast deep inspiration breath-hold radiotherapy setup
Thermo-optical surface monitoring with X-ray correction kept breast deep inspiration breath-hold setup errors within clinical tolerance.
Optical surface imaging supported Monte Carlo dosimetry for total skin electron therapy
Photogrammetry-derived body surface models enabled Monte Carlo evaluation of total skin electron therapy dose homogeneity and hot-cold spot locations.
Volumetric modulated arc therapy complexity surveillance predicted patient-specific quality assurance results
Aperture irregularity and modulation complexity score were the strongest plan-complexity predictors of patient-specific quality assurance pass rate.
Shared-source toolkit integrated spatially fractionated radiation therapy planning inside Eclipse
A shared-source Eclipse toolkit unified lattice generation, position-aware optimization, and peak-valley dose ratio evaluation for spatially fractionated radiation therapy.
Radiomics reproducibility depended on preprocessing in low-field magnetic resonance-guided radiotherapy
N4 bias correction with z-score normalization produced the most stable radiomic features on a 0.35 tesla magnetic resonance linear accelerator.