ArticleTechnical innovations & patient support in radiation oncology2021
Faster and more accurate patient positioning with surface guided radiotherapy for ultra-hypofractionated prostate cancer patients.
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- Enhancing inter-fraction set-up accuracy and margin minimization (E-SAMM): a comparison of maskless surface-guided and mask-based laser alignment positioning in pelvic radiotherapy.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2026Article
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- Workflow evaluation of surface-guided initial patient set-up in radiotherapy.Physics and imaging in radiation oncology · 2025Article
- Use of surface tracking recordings to identify pitfalls during surface-guided radiotherapy.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2025Article
- From CBCT to MR-Linac in Image-Guided Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy Towards Treatment Personalization.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025Review
- Analysis of intra-fractional surface motion during adaptive radiation therapy and relation of internal vs. external position for prostate cancer.Radiation oncology (London, England) · 2025Article
- Surface guided radiotherapy practice in paediatric oncology: a survey on behalf of the SIOPE Radiation Oncology Working Group.The British journal of radiology · 2024Article
- Automated Test for Monthly Quality Assurance of Optical Surface Imaging Dynamic Localization Accuracy.Cureus · 2024Article
- Surface-Guided Radiotherapy: Can We Move on from the Era of Three-Point Markers to the New Era of Thousands of Points?Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Application of surface-guided radiation therapy in prostate cancer: comparative analysis of differences with skin marking-guided patient setup.Radiation oncology journal · 2023Article
- Surface-guided radiotherapy improves rotational accuracy in gynecological cancer patients.Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology · 2023Article
- Advances and potential of optical surface imaging in radiotherapy.Physics in medicine and biology · 2022Review
- Introduction to: Surface Guided Radiotherapy (SGRT).Technical innovations & patient support in radiation oncology · 2022Article
- Surface guided radiation therapy: An international survey on current clinical practice.Technical innovations & patient support in radiation oncology · 2022Article
- A review of surface guidance in extracranial stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT/SABR) for set-up and intra-fraction motion management.Technical innovations & patient support in radiation oncology · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionThe aim of this study was to evaluate if surface guided radiotherapy (SGRT) can decrease patient positioning time for localized prostate cancer patients compared to the conventional 3-point localization setup method. The patient setup accuracy was also compared between the two setup methods. MATERIALS AND
methodsA total of 40 localized prostate cancer patients were enrolled in this study, where 20 patients were positioned with surface imaging (SI) and 20 patients were positioned with 3-point localization. The setup time was obtained from the system log files of the linear accelerator and compared between the two methods. The patient setup was verified with daily orthogonal kV images which were matched based on the implanted gold fiducial markers. Resulting setup deviations between planned and online positions were compared between SI and 3-point localization.
resultsMedian setup time was 2:50 min and 3:28 min for SI and 3-point localization, respectively (
conclusionsUsing SGRT for positioning of prostate cancer patients provided a faster and more accurate patient positioning compared to the conventional 3-point localization setup.
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