Abstract: The global burden of breast cancer is significant, affecting large numbers of women world-wide. As more than 50% of this patient cohort receive radiation therapy, improvements to the ...

To investigate and characterize the performance of a novel orthogonal dual-layer alpha multileaf collimator (αMLC) mounted on the LinaTech VenusX linac. The average maximum positioning deviations of ...

MRI-guided radiotherapy systems offer the ability to visualize tumour targets and surrounding organs with high accuracy, with the potential to perform real-time treatment adaptation based on ...

Provided to more than a quarter of cancer patients, today’s targeted radiotherapy has come a long way from its experimental, and Nobel Prize winning, origins. When administering the treatment, shaping ...

Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China Background: In the patient-specific quality assurance (QA), DVH is a critical clinically ...

Locally advanced and oligometastatic cancer patients require radiotherapy treatment to multiple independently moving targets. There is no existing commercial solution that can simultaneously track and ...

A multileaf collimator (MLC) for radiosurgery from Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, Calif., contains up to 120 tungsten slats controlled by miniature motors. The slats block the path of X-rays, ...

The dosimetric leaf gap (DLG) and multileaf collimator (MLC) transmission are two important systematic parameters used to model the rounded MLC leaf ends effect when commissioning an Eclipse treatment ...

The proposed ring-based compensator enables IMRT without multileaf collimators. The gantry rotates and delivers each beam successively. (Courtesy: Med. Phys. 10.1002 ...

Cancer is a global health issue that disproportionately kills based on stage of disease, cellular pathology, and genetics, to name a few. Another variable to consider in this ongoing fight is ...