Abstract
IN THE CURRENT RADIATION therapy practice, treatment plans are generated based on a snapshot of the patient’s anatomy captured during treatment simulation and then delivered fractionally over a number of weeks. However, the patient’s anatomy may vary significantly from fraction to fraction. These variations occur when a patient loses weight, when the tumor regresses during therapy [1-3], when organs such as bladder and rectum have different filling status [4], etc. With the advent of onboard cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), interfraction geometry variations can be readily measured before each treatment fraction and the static radiation therapy process can potentially be transformed into a dynamic one, that is, online adaptive radiation therapy (ART) [5,6].
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Graphics Processing Unit-Based High Performance Computing in Radiation Therapy |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 351-366 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781482244793 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781482244786 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2015 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine
- General Physics and Astronomy