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Suman Gautam

Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Impact of Small Metallic Artifact Contouring on Local Dose Perturbations

Small metallic objects such as titanium and tantalum surgical clips are frequently present in clinical treatment planning images. Because these objects produce streak artifacts in planning CT images and may lie within the beam path, there is concern that they...

Poster Program · Therapy Physics
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Time Is of the Essence: Precise Quantification of Intrafraction Baseline Positional Drift across Brain, Head-and-Neck, Thorax, Breast, and Pelvis Sites By Leveraging 100,000 IGRT Sessions

Numerous studies have quantified target baseline positional drift rates across anatomic sites; however, these investigations are often limited by surrogate localization methods (e.g., surface-guidance), single-site analyses, or limited datasets. Here, we leve...

Proffered Program · Therapy Physics