Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Impact of the MLC on the MRI field distortion of a prototype MRI-linac.
Published 2013-12-01PURPOSE: To cope with intrafraction tumor motion, integrated MRI-linac systems for real-time image guidance are currently under development. The multileaf collimator (MLC) is a key component in every state-of-the-art ...Open AccessArticle -
Dose enhancement in radiotherapy of small lung tumors using inline magnetic fields: A Monte Carlo based planning study
Published 2016-01-01PURPOSE: To report on significant dose enhancement effects caused by magnetic fields aligned parallel to 6 MV photon beam radiotherapy of small lung tumors. Findings are applicable to future inline MRI-guided radiotherapy ...Open AccessArticle -
A longitudinal four-dimensional computed tomography and cone beam computed tomography dataset for image-guided radiation therapy research in lung cancer.
Published 2017-02-01PURPOSE: To describe in detail a dataset consisting of serial four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) and 4D cone beam CT (4DCBCT) images acquired during chemoradiotherapy of 20 locally advanced, nonsmall cell lung ...Open AccessArticle -
Dynamic keyhole: a novel method to improve MR images in the presence of respiratory motion for real-time MRI
Published 2014-07-01PURPOSE: In this work, the authors present a novel magnetic resonance imaging reconstruction method to improve the quality of MR images in the presence of respiratory motion for real-time thoracic image-guided radiotherapy. ...Open AccessArticle -
Validating and improving CT ventilation imaging by correlating with ventilation 4D-PET/CT using 68Ga-labeled nanoparticles.
Published 2014-01-01PURPOSE: CT ventilation imaging is a novel functional lung imaging modality based on deformable image registration. The authors present the first validation study of CT ventilation using positron emission tomography with ...Open AccessArticle