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Volumetric arc intensity-modulated therapy for spine body radiotherapy: comparison with static intensity-modulated treatmentQ Jackie Wu
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 75:1596-604. 2009....
On-board patient positioning for head-and-neck IMRT: comparing digital tomosynthesis to kilovoltage radiography and cone-beam computed tomographyQ Jackie Wu
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 69:598-606. 2007..This clinical study evaluated DTS as a daily imaging technique for patient positioning and compared the results with 3D CBCT and two-dimensional (2D) radiography...
Adaptive radiation therapy: technical components and clinical applicationsQingrong Jackie Wu
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Cancer J 17:182-9. 2011..The purpose of this review was to present different ART methods currently developed and used by different investigators...
On-line re-optimization of prostate IMRT plans for adaptive radiation therapyQ Jackie Wu
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC, USA
Phys Med Biol 53:673-91. 2008..The feasibility of this technique is demonstrated with a clinical case with large deformation. Such on-line ART process can be highly valuable with hypo-fractionated prostate IMRT treatment...
Digital tomosynthesis for respiratory gated liver treatment: clinical feasibility for daily image guidanceQ Jackie Wu
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 79:289-96. 2011..This study evaluates the localization accuracy of DTS for BH treatment of liver tumors...
Impact of collimator leaf width and treatment technique on stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy plans for intra- and extracranial lesionsQ Jackie Wu
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Radiat Oncol 4:3. 2009..Specifically, this study evaluated the dosimetric benefits of various techniques and collimator leaf sizes as a function of lesion size and shape...
The impact of respiratory motion and treatment technique on stereotactic body radiation therapy for liver cancerQ Jackie Wu
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC 27710, USA
Med Phys 35:1440-51. 2008....
Similarities between static and rotational intensity-modulated plansQ Jackie Wu
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Phys Med Biol 55:33-43. 2010..A minimum critical number of segments are required to ensure adequate plan quality. Future studies are needed to establish the range of minimum critical number of segments for different treatment sites and target-organ geometries...
Development and clinical evaluation of a three-dimensional cone-beam computed tomography estimation method using a deformation field mapLei Ren
Department of Radiation Oncology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 82:1584-93. 2012..To develop a three-dimensional (3D) cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) estimation method using a deformation field map, and to evaluate and optimize the efficiency and accuracy of the method for use in the clinical setting...
Arc-modulated radiation therapy based on linear modelsXiaofeng Zhu
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Phys Med Biol 55:3873-83. 2010..Details of the algorithm are presented, and its conceptual correctness is verified with clinical cases representing prostate and head-and-neck treatments...
Radiotherapy treatment plans with RapidArc for prostate cancer involving seminal vesicles and lymph nodesSua Yoo
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 76:935-42. 2010..Dosimetric results and treatment delivery efficiency of RapidArc plans to those of conventional intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) plans were compared using the Eclipse treatment planning system for high-risk prostate cancer...
Stereotactic body radiotherapy for lesions of the spine and paraspinal regionsJohn W Nelson
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 73:1369-75. 2009..To describe our experience and clinical strategy for stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) of spinal lesions...
Comparison of online IGRT techniques for prostate IMRT treatment: adaptive vs repositioning correctionDanthai Thongphiew
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, P O Box 3295, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Med Phys 36:1651-62. 2009....
Impact of volumetric modulated arc therapy technique on treatment with partial breast irradiationJian Jian Qiu
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 78:288-96. 2010..To investigate the technical feasibility of volumetric modulated arc therapy (V-MAT) in the delivery of partial breast irradiation (PBI)...
Integration of cone-beam CT in stereotactic body radiation therapyFang Fang Yin
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC, USA
Technol Cancer Res Treat 7:133-9. 2008..Improved immobilization may enhance positioning accuracy. Typical total "in-room" times for the patients are approximately 1 hour. CBCT-guided SBRT is feasible and enhances setup accuracy using 3-D anatomical information...
Clinical evaluation of positioning verification using digital tomosynthesis and bony anatomy and soft tissues for prostate image-guided radiotherapySua Yoo
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 73:296-305. 2009..To evaluate on-board digital tomosynthesis (DTS) for patient positioning vs. two-dimensional (2D) radiography and three-dimensional cone beam (CBCT)...
Refinement of treatment setup and target localization accuracy using three-dimensional cone-beam computed tomography for stereotactic body radiotherapyZhiheng Wang
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 73:571-7. 2009....
Comparing digital tomosynthesis to cone-beam CT for position verification in patients undergoing partial breast irradiationJunan Zhang
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 73:952-7. 2009....
Volumetric-modulated arc therapy: effective and efficient end-to-end patient-specific quality assuranceJennifer O'Daniel
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 82:1567-74. 2012....
Dosimetric characteristics of novalis Tx system with high definition multileaf collimatorZheng Chang
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University, Box 3295, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Med Phys 35:4460-3. 2008..Since there is little beam data information available for the new Novalis Tx system, we present in this work the dosimetric data of the new modality for reference and comparison...
Adaptive prostate IGRT combining online re-optimization and re-positioning: a feasibility studyTaoran Li
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Centre, Durham, NC, USA
Phys Med Biol 56:1243-58. 2011..AIGRT is also seen to provide improved OAR sparing compared to re-positioning. Apart from dosimetric benefits, AIGRT in addition offers an efficient scheme to integrate re-optimization to current re-positioning-based IGRT workflow...
Automatic registration between reference and on-board digital tomosynthesis images for positioning verificationLei Ren
Department of Radiation Oncology, Physics, Duke University Medical Center, DUMC Box 3295, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Med Phys 35:664-72. 2008..Results also showed that the hybrid registration technique had much larger capture ranges than the static method alone in registering the out-of-plane rotations...
Real-time inverse planning for Gamma Knife radiosurgeryQ Jackie Wu
Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
Med Phys 30:2988-95. 2003..The RTOG PITV conformity indices for the manual plans are between 1.16 and 3.46, compared to 1.36 to 2.4 for the inverse plans. All the inverse plans are generated in less than 2 min, making real-time inverse planning a reality...
A planning quality evaluation tool for prostate adaptive IMRT based on machine learningXiaofeng Zhu
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
Med Phys 38:719-26. 2011..This tool generates dose volume histograms (DVHs) of organs-at-risk (OARs) based on prior plans as a reference, to be compared with the adaptive plan derived from fluence map deformation...
Quantitative analysis of the factors which affect the interpatient organ-at-risk dose sparing variation in IMRT plansLulin Yuan
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Med Phys 39:6868-78. 2012....
On-line adaptive radiation therapy: feasibility and clinical studyTaoran Li
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
J Oncol 2010:407236. 2010..In addition, a clinical implementation scheme for ART is designed and evaluated using clinical cases for its dosimetric qualities and efficiency...
An image-guided technique for planning and verification of supine craniospinal irradiationRyan L McMahon
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
J Appl Clin Med Phys 12:3310. 2011..It requires no additional devices to be fabricated (for immobilization or QA), and it takes advantage of all the existing elements of a modern linac...
Cone-beam CT localization of internal target volumes for stereotactic body radiotherapy of lung lesionsZhiheng Wang
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 69:1618-24. 2007..The technique is illustrated by using both phantom and patient cases...
IMRT treatment of anal cancer with a scrotal shieldRodney C Hood
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Med Dosim 37:432-5. 2012..The combination of these techniques resulted in a highly conformal plan that spares organs and risk and avoids the genitals as well as entrance of primary radiation onto the shielding device...
A novel digital tomosynthesis (DTS) reconstruction method using a deformation field mapLei Ren
Med Phys 35:3110-5. 2008..Preliminary validation of the algorithm showed that it is both technically and clinically feasible for image guidance in radiation therapy...
Intensity-modulated radiation therapy for anal malignancies: a preliminary toxicity and disease outcomes analysisJoseph M Pepek
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 78:1413-9. 2010..Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) has the potential to reduce toxicities associated with chemoradiotherapy in the treatment of anal cancer. This study reports the results of using IMRT in the treatment of anal cancer...
