Accurate dose calculation is essential for radiotherapy. The present study benchmarks the performances of the anisotropic analytical algorithm (AAA), Acuros XB (AXB), and collapsed cone convolution ...

This study investigates the role of the h-VMAT (a hybrid of 3DCRT and VMAT) technique in the Deep Inspirational Breath-Hold (DIBH) method for left-breast irradiation by comparing dosimetric parameters ...

Cancer care provider GenesisCare is using LAP’s RadCalc platform to perform software-based quality assurance of all its radiotherapy treatment plans Saving time, increasing safety GenesisCare’s ...

The challenge of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is its low image quality, which limits its application for adaptive radiotherapy (ART). Despite recent substantial improvement in CBCT imaging ...

Independent QA not only ensures delivery of intended therapeutic dose, it drives continuous improvement in patient safety by rooting out systematic machine and workflow errors QA efficiency: The ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The impact of the in-flow characteristics inside the injection nozzle on atomization ...

To predict grade ≥ 2 radiation pneumonitis (RP) in patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) using multi-region radiomics analysis. Data from 77 patients with NSCLC who ...

ABSTRACT: Purpose: To introduce a practical method of using an Electron Density Phantom (EDP) to evaluate different dose calculation algorithms for photon beams in a treatment planning system (TPS) ...

Cancer Therapy and Research Center at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Recent technological advances in the dose delivery, positioning, and immobilization of the patient have ...

Nation-states fail because they are convulsed by internal violence and can no longer deliver positive political goods to their inhabitants. Their governments lose legitimacy, and the very nature of ...