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  • [Med Phys.] Current state and future applications of radiological image guidance for particle therapy.

    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Guillaume Landry, Chia‐ho Hua*

  • 출처
    Med Phys.
  • 등재일
    2018 Nov
  • 저널이슈번호
    45(11):e1086-e1095. doi: 10.1002/mp.12744.
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    Abstract
    In this review paper, we first give a short overview of radiological image guidance in photon radiotherapy, placing emphasis on the fact that linac based radiotherapy has outpaced particle therapy in the adoption of volumetric image guidance. While cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) has been an established technique in linac treatment rooms for almost two decades, the widespread adoption of volumetric image guidance in particle therapy, whether by means of CBCT or in-room CT imaging, is recent. This lag may be attributable to the bespoke nature and lower number of particle therapy installations, as well as the differences in geometry between those installations and linac treatment rooms. In addition, for particle therapy the so called shift invariance of the dose distribution rarely applies. An overview of the different volumetric image guidance solutions found at modern particle therapy facilities is provided, covering gantry, nozzle, C-arm, and couch-mounted CBCT as well different in-room CT configurations. A summary of the use of in-room volumetric imaging data beyond anatomy-based positioning is also presented as well as the necessary corrections to CBCT images for accurate water equivalent thickness calculation. Finally, the use of non-ionizing imaging modalities is discussed.

     


    Author information

    Landry G1, Hua CH2.
    1
    Faculty of Physics, Department of Medical Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), 85748, Garching b. München, Germany.
    2
    Department of Radiation Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.

  • 키워드
    cone beam computed tomography; in-room CT; particle therapy; proton therapy; volumetric image guidance
  • 편집위원

    입자치료기에 사용되고 있는 여러 종류들의 3D 영상장치들의 그 변천과정과 장단점을 정리해 놓아 쉽게 알 수 있었다. 앞으로의 발전방향까지 짐작할 수 있어서 더 좋았다.

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