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In this study, recommendations of the AAPM TG- 43 (U1) report have been followed to characterize the new 192Ir pulse dose rate source, provided by the Applied Radiation Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute in…
Purpose: Many planning methods for high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy treatment planning require an iterative approach. A set of computational parameters are hypothesized that will give a dose plan that meets dosimetric criteria. A dose…
Purpose: To develop clinically relevant test cases for commissioning Model-Based Dose Calculation Algorithms (MBDCAs) for 192Ir High Dose Rate (HDR) gynecologic brachytherapy following the workflow proposed by the TG-186 report and the…
This study presents the development and validation of an independent software tool based on the Varian Eclipse Scripting API (ESAPI) for multi-modal brachytherapy Quality Assurance (QA). The tool addresses GEC-ESTRO HDR protocols and LDR…
Purpose: To develop a model to generate volumetric dose distribution from two isodose surfaces (iso-surfaces), and to interactively tune dose distribution by iso-surface dragging. Methods: We model volumetric dose distribution as analytical…
The purpose of this work is to develop viable procedures for verifying the applicability of personalized dosimetry in computed tomography (CT) using Monte Carlo-based simulations. Mobile equipment together with customized software was…
Purpose: To verify dose delivery and quality assurance of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for head and neck cancer. Method: The Imaging and Radiation Oncology Core Houston (IROC-H) head and neck phantom with thermo- luminescent…
Purpose: We sought to evaluate the feasibility of using machine learning algorithms for multipoint plastic scintillator detector calibration in high-dose-rate brachytherapy. Methods: The dosimetry system consisted of an optimized 1-mm-core…
This study aims to introduce IViST (In Vivo Source Tracking), a novel multi-sensors dosimetry platform for real-time treatment monitoring in HDR brachytherapy. IViST is a platform that comprises 3 parts: 1) an optimized and characterized…
Purpose: To develop and evaluate DosimeTron, an agentic AI system for automated patient-specific MC internal radiation dosimetry in PET/CT examinations. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective study, DosimeTron was evaluated on a…
Radiation dose is an important performance indicator of a dedicated breast CT (DBCT). In this paper, the method of putting thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLD) into a breast shaped PMMA phantom to study the dose distribution in breasts was…
An MRI-only adaptive radiotherapy (ART) workflow is desirable for managing interfractional changes in anatomy, but producing synthetic CT (sCT) data through paired data-driven deep learning (DL) for abdominal dose calculations remains a…
Purpose: To develop a Monte Carlo (MC) therapeutic dose calculation toolkit of a recently released ring gantry linac in Geant4 (Version 10.7) for secondary dose validation of radiotherapy plan. Methods: For the Halcyon (Varian Medical…
The $^{192}$Ir sources are widely used for high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy treatments. The aim of this study is to simulate $^{192}$Ir MicroSelectron v2 HDR brachytherapy source and calculate the air kerma strength, dose rate constant,…
Objective: This study aims to develop and validate a novel framework, iPhantom, for automated creation of patient-specific phantoms or digital-twins (DT) using patient medical images. The framework is applied to assess radiation dose to…
Purpose: To present the performance of a multi-point plastic scintillation detector (mPSD) as a tool in vivo dosimetry in brachytherapy. Methods: A previously optimized three-point sensor system was used for in vivo HDR brachytherapy…
Purpose: To provide a fast computational method, based on the proximal graph solver (POGS) - a convex optimization solver using the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), for calculating an optimal treatment plan in rotating…
In this study, two proton beam delivery designs, passive scattering proton therapy (PSPT) and pencil beam scanning (PBS), were quantitatively compared in terms of dosimetric indices. The GATE Monte Carlo code was used to simulate the proton…
Purpose: To validate the accuracy of 4D Monte Carlo (4DMC) simulations to calculate dose deliveries to a deforming anatomy in the presence of realistic respiratory motion traces. A previously developed deformable lung phantom comprising an…
To accurately verify the dose of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), we have used a global optimization method to investigate a new dose-verification algorithm. In practical application of this quality assurance (QA) procedure,…