CT-Simulation-Free Direct to Treatment: End-to-End Physics Feasibility, External Audit, and Live Spine Planning Directly on Daily CBCT
Therapy Physics
Invited Program · Therapy Physics
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Departments of Radiation Oncology; Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University
Therapy Physics
To explore utilization of a generalized planning template to enable reference-free direct-to-unit treatment for prostate cancer.
This work evaluates Varian’s HyperSight CBCT system installed on the Ethos radiotherapy platform using head-and-neck (H&N) patient cases to characterize the image quality and dose-calculation accuracy in the presence of metal-induced artifacts for CBCT-based...