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Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Cone-beam CT (CBCT) is routinely used for image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT); however, in the optimal frequency of CBCT varies across patients and treatment sites, affecting imaging dose, workflow efficiency, and clinical consistency. This study aims to de...
Cyberattacks pose a growing threat to the continuity of radiation therapy services. Establishing contingency plans (CPs) is critical for rapid recovery post-cyberattack and for maintaining operational resilience. However, the extent of awareness, perceived im...
Proton head-and-neck (HN) patients often experience target volume changes. Our investigation of daily CBCTs showed the changes from swelling to shrinkage happening usually within one week. Offline adaptation takes about one week to create a replan and thus ve...
Breast patients treated with intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) often experience more severe skin dose toxicity compared to those with photon 3DCRT. Here we quantitatively estimated the LET-dependent RBE (LET-RBE) vs clinically used constant RBE=1.1 fo...
Daily cone-beam CT (CBCT) is widely used in adaptive proton therapy; however, scatter artifacts can degrade image quality and introduce proton dose calculation inaccuracies. We developed a region-of-interest (ROI)–guided Swin-Transformer deep learning (DL) ne...