Radiotherapy dose calculation algorithms are essential components of modern treatment planning, ensuring that the prescribed radiation dose conforms as closely as possible to a patient’s tumour while ...

Perfusion CT scanning, an emerging imaging technology, got a bad rap last year when a machine set to incorrect radiation levels overdosed hundreds of people in Los Angeles. In the wake of this ...

Verification of radiation dose at the time of radiotherapy is a necessity to ensure accurate dose delivery to a malignant tumour. With many radiation treatments, daily verification is performed using ...

A mathematical model for computing radiation therapy treatments was developed by a research team at North Carolina State University. The new model could substantially reduce patient side effects while ...

Dose conversion: A deep learning model predicts the Monte Carlo (MC) dose distribution from the pencil beam (PB) dose, for a prostate cancer case. (a) PB dose distribution; (b) converted dose ...

A mathematical model for computing radiation therapy treatments could substantially reduce patient side effects while delivering the same results as conventional radiation therapy. Researchers at ...

Other enhancements to the Eclipse software include robust planning and optimization tools that enable proton treatment planners to account for uncertainties connected with patient setup error, tumor ...

Radiotherapy (RT) is one of the mainstay treatment modalities for cancer contributing to 40% of patients cured. The conventional RT paradigm of delivering a homogeneous dose to the whole tumour, ...

In the wake of recent radiation overdoses, researchers excited by CT perfusion's promise for diagnosing stroke, cancer, and possibly heart disease have developed a way to reduce the amount of ...