Browsing by Subject "Medical Physics"
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DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A NOVEL TECHNOLOGY FOR MONITORING PATIENT MOTION DURING STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY
(2021-08-27)Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) are two of the most precise therapeutic radiation delivery techniques available. These techniques involve accurate delivery of high radiation doses ... -
Development and Implementation of Trajectory Optimization Technologies for Cranial Stereotactic Radiation Therapy
(2018-08-20)Radiotherapy treatment planning optimization employs metrics for the quantification of plan quality indicators based on a set of input desired criteria by the planner. Patient-specificity in current practice is limited to ... -
Non-Coplanar Arc Optimization for Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy Treatment Planning
(2023-08-29)Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) is a technique that delivers a high dose of radiation in a single or small number of fractions and requires rapid fall off outside the target. In current clinical practice it is ... -
Patient-Specific Collision Zones for 4π Trajectory Optimized Radiation Therapy
(2020-08-17)This thesis presents a system that determined patient-specific collision zones (CZs) to enable safe and deliverable non-coplanar treatment trajectories for stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) patients. Full body ... -
Real-time dual energy markerless monitoring of lung tumors using a clinical room-mounted stereoscopic and monoscopic x-ray imaging system
(2024-08-28)This thesis develops real-time dual-energy markerless imaging technology to monitor lung tumor motion using a clinical room-mounted x-ray imaging system to enhance radiotherapy precision. The first chapter introduces the ... -
Surface Dose Enhancement Using Low-Z Electron/Photon Beams
(2014-12-23)Advances in linear accelerator technology has lead to the development of a linac which incorporates an in-air target assembly, making it possible to investigate novel treatments using multiple target designs. One such novel ...