All conference submissions

The nutritional status of head and neck cancer (HNC) patients receiving radiotherapy often declines due to treatment-related side effects. This study characterizes the effect of baseline body mass index (BMI) on overall survival...

Ultrasound-guided high-dose-rate (UGHDR) brachytherapy for prostate cancer depends on real-time transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) imaging for catheter guidance. However, the limited ability of TRUS to depict critical bony anatomy, su...

Re-irradiation (re-RT) is an important treatment option for recurrent head and neck cancer (HNC); however, dysphagia remains a clinically significant toxicity. Accurate prediction models are needed to identify high-risk patients...

To establish and validate a combined model based on multi-sequence MRI radiomics and clinical features for predicting LN metastasis in rectal adenocarcinoma patients.

Predicting radiation pneumonitis (RP) using machine learning is promising, particularly when functional lung heterogeneity is incorporated via dose-function histogram (DFH) and CT ventilation imaging (CTVI). However, traditional...

Current clinical toxicity models for predicting radiation-induced pneumonitis are limited by lack of functional information; furthermore, current practice assumes a relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of 1.1 for proton therap...

Synchrotron-based proton spot scanning includes non-productive dead time from layer switching and spill change/reinjection. In dose-driven continuous scanning, spill changes are commonly triggered only after beam exhaustion, caus...

Endobronchial Valves (EBV) are one of the few treatment options for patients with moderate to severe emphysema. Eligibility is typically assessed from CT image data analysis including Emphysema Score (Relative Area, RA950) and Fi...

Diagnostic medical physicists are often tasked with estimating effective dose (ED) for patient imaging procedures. As chest radiography is frequently performed in children, it is useful to know the general magnitudes of ED for va...

To determine whether natural-respiration breath hold (NRBH) should be used to freeze organ motion rather than deep-inspiration breath hold (DIBH) in abdominal cancer treatments, as NRBH should be more reproducible, retaining orga...

To investigate the different elements of the CT imaging workflow. Specifically, seeking opportunities to quantify workflow elements to then evaluate clinical and operational improvement efforts.

To present preliminary validation results for the first carbon treatment planning system (TPS) in the United States and to benchmark its GPU Monte Carlo dose engine using depth-resolved dose and microdosimetric metrics.

To evaluate the stability of radiomic features extracted from HyperSightTM CBCT imaging in stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) treatments.

Electronic portal imaging devices (EPID) are widely used clinically for patient-specific quality assurance (QA). Anticipating potential failures can help prioritize measurements to assess the need for plan revision and avoid down...

This study models clinical outcomes of SFRT treatments delivered using the 3D MLC-based Crossfire technique.

To introduce a hybrid quantum-classical machine learning (QML) approach and validate its feasibility and accuracy for pretreatment radiation esophagitis (RE) prediction in patients with esophageal cancer (EC) undergoing radiother...

Consistent bladder filling is a critical determinant of dosimetric accuracy and organ-at-risk (OAR) sparing in prostate radiotherapy (RT). This retrospective study evaluates whether the implementation of a dedicated ultrasound (U...

While AAPM Working Group Report 438 provides essential guidance for business continuity planning after a cyberattack, preventing attacks remains the highest priority. Medical physicists need practical, immediately implementable p...

Radiotherapy planning is time-intensive, iterative, and operator dependent. AI automates planning but is not transparent, and cloud-based models threaten privacy. We developed and evaluated SAGE (Secure Agent for Generative dose...

To perform cohort-level probabilistic quality assurance of biopsy dose thresholds in HDR prostate brachytherapy under a fixed localization-uncertainty model and relate robustness to nominal distance from threshold.

Radiosynovectomy (RSV) is a minimally invasive therapeutic option for the treatment of chronic synovitis, with yttrium-90 (⁹⁰Y) being particularly suitable for large joints such as the knee. In Brazil, national production of ther...

Early body composition (BC) loss after chemotherapy associates with poor outcomes in PDAC, but its implications for treatment strategy remain unclear. Radiotherapy (RT) is sometimes considered after 6 months of chemotherapy for p...

Prognostic stratification of patients with oligometastatic (1–5 metastases) non–small cell lung cancer (omNSCLC) remains a challenging yet important task. This study evaluates the prognostic value of clinical and FDG-PET-derived...

Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SAbR) has demonstrated efficacy in controlling oligometastatic renal cell carcinoma (omRCC) with safely delayed systemic therapy. However, a subset of patients has limited benefit from SAbR, wh...