Only 31% of patients with prostate cancer receiving radiation therapy had a successful CT simulation on the first attempt, while more than half required multiple scans on the same day and nearly 17% ...
When planning for palliative radiotherapy, clinicians can forgo an additional CT scan on the same day as treatment and instead use a recent diagnostic CT scan, according to a results from a randomized ...
SAN DIEGO -- Using recent diagnostic CT scans instead of CT simulation scans to plan palliative radiation treatments can substantially reduce the time to treatment completion for cancer patients, the ...
Development of a performance status prediction model for use in administrative data analyses. Background: Technical studies suggest CT-based simulation can improve the therapeutic ratio for thoracic ...
Distant outcomes of chemoimmunotherapy with recombinant interferon-gamma for acinar-type adenocarcinoma of the lung. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract ...
The DirectDensity algorithm from Siemens Healthineers gives radiation oncologists and medical physicists ready access to CT images optimized for both patient contouring and dose calculation Clinical ...