Patient Immobilization · Literature Radar
Per-site SBRT setup — body frame, abdominal compression, knee + ankle support reproducibility. Curated daily from Europe PMC (PubMed + PMC + preprints) and OpenAlex — free-full-text link on each open-access paper.
Kim YL, Yu JI, Suh JK.
PurposeThis study aimed to systematically evaluate the clinical utility of endorectal balloons (ERB) for motion management and organ-at-risk sparing in prostate cancer patients receiving external beam…
Crawley A, Thould C, Dallman J, Dwyer E et al.
BackgroundMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly recommended in radiotherapy planning for patients with hepatobiliary malignancies due to its superior soft-tissue contrast. However, implemen…
Shay O, Solis D, Aire M, Schneider C et al.
BackgroundAbdominal compression (AC) using a belt-based system is widely employed in radiation therapy to limit respiration-induced target motion for abdominal and hepatic malignancies. While AC has d…
Shi Y, Wang H, Ding L, Sun M et al.
PurposeThis study aimed to evaluate the clinical feasibility and efficacy of a novel abdominal compression airbag (ACA) for respiratory motion management and setup reproducibility in upper abdominal r…
Daly M, Choudhury A, McWilliam A, Radhakrishna G et al.
BackgroundRespiratory motion is a challenge for accurate stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) to the liver. This study compares the dosimetric impact of abdominal compression (AC), breath hold (B…
Mai WX, Huang KZ, Kuo J, Wang E et al.
PurposeTumor motion during respiration presents a challenge in delivering high-precision stereotactic ablative radiation therapy (SABR) for lung cancer. While inspiratory breath-hold techniques can mi…
Khaleghibizaki M, Sobremonte A, Perles L, Prajapati S et al.
Compression belts (CBs) are sometimes used to reduce respiratory motion during stereotactic body radiotherapy of abdominal cancers with magnetic resonance (MR)-guided online adaptive planning. This st…
Jin H, Ha M, Jegal J, Park H et al.
PurposeTo evaluate the feasibility and accuracy of inertial measurement unit (IMU) for respiratory motion tracking and four-dimensional cone-beam computed tomography (4D CBCT) reconstruction in radiot…
Li Q, Liu R, Han L, Xu Y et al.
PurposeThis study evaluated setup error and efficiency in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) receiving stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), comparing surface-guided radiation ther…
Xu Z, Gao J, Xu T, Lei H et al.
Respiratory motion management was crucial importance in radiotherapy. Our study aimed to explore the dosimetric and radiobiological benefits of various respiratory motion management strategies in live…
Shao K, Chen W, Xu Y, Yang S.
Respiratory-induced tumor motion is a major obstacle in the precise delivery of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for lung cancer, often leading to geometric uncertainties, insufficient tumor cove…
Marshall J, Bergman A, Karan T, Deyell MW et al.
PurposeTo investigate the utility of implanted cardiac leads or the diaphragm for active respiratory motion management in stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation by quantifying the relationship between …
Walter YA, Wang CJ, Speir DB, Burrell WE et al.
PurposeMotion management presents a significant challenge in thoracic stereotactic ablative radiation therapy (SABR). Currently, a 5.0-mm standard planning target volume (PTV) margin is widely used to…
Walter YA, Speir DB, Burrell WE, Wang CJ et al.
Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) has become a key technique in management of spine metastases. With improved control over treatment plan dosimetry, there is a greater need for accurate patien…
Webster A, Mundora Y, Clark CH, Hawkins MA.
Background and purposeReducing motion is vital when radiotherapy is used to treat patients with hepatobiliary (HPB) and pancreatic malignancies. Abdominal compression (AC) and breath-hold (BH) techniq…
Waheed A, Murland S, Yip E, Heikal A et al.
BackgroundStereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is an evolving treatment for the local management of pancreatic cancer (PC). The main purpose of this study is to report our initial experience in terms…
Mitsuhashi N, Tominaga D, Ikeda H, Shiina F et al.
BackgroundRecent advances in stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) technology for early-stage peripheral lung cancer have been remarkable and are becoming a viable alternative to surgery. However…
Daly M, McDaid L, Anandadas C, Brocklehurst A et al.
Background and purposeThe impact of respiratory motion management strategies for abdominal radiotherapy, such as abdominal compression (AC) and breath hold (BH), on abdominal organ at risk (OAR) delin…
Ferris WS, George B, Plichta KA, Caster JM et al.
IntroductionThis work presents a method to treat stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for pancreatic cancer on a magnetic resonance-guided linear accelerator (MR-linac) using daily adaptation, r…
Hoshina M, Noguchi M, Takanashi M, Masuda K et al.
We have clinically implemented gated stereotactic body radiotherapy under abdominal compression using an Anzai laser-based gating device with visual guidance in combination with an Elekta linear accel…
Cecchi DD, Ploquin NP, Faruqi S, Morrison H.
PurposeTo evaluate the effectiveness of abdominal compression (AC) as a respiratory motion management method for the heart and stomach during stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation (STAR).Methods4D com…
Daly M, McDaid L, Nelder C, Chuter R et al.
The impact of fat on abdominal compression effectiveness in abdominal cancers was determined using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Visceral and subcutaneous fat were delineated on T2W 3D MRI, and mo…
Mannerberg A, Nilsson MP, Edvardsson A, Karlsson K et al.
Background and purposeStereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) has emerged as a promising treatment for patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) who do not respond to standard treatments. However, the …
Hadj Henni A, Gensanne D, Roge M, Hanzen C et al.
BackgroundThe objective of this study was to analyze the amplitude of translational and rotational movements occurring during stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) of spinal metastases in two differen…
Hu Y, Zhou YK, Chen YX, Shi SM et al.
ObjectiveA comprehensive clinical evaluation was conducted, assessing the Body Pro-Lok immobilization and positioning system to facilitate hypofractionated radiotherapy of intrahepatic hepatocellular …
Ciocca M, Mirandola A, Molinelli S, Russo S et al.
PurposeThe aim of this work was the commissioning of delivery procedures for the treatment of moving targets in scanning pencil beam hadrontherapy.MethodsEBT3 films fixed to the Anzai Respiratory Phan…
Fontana G, Riboldi M, Gianoli C, Chirvase CI et al.
Particle therapy (PT) has shown positive therapeutic results in local control of locally advanced pancreatic lesions. PT effectiveness is highly influenced by target localization accuracy both in spac…
Park JI, Ye SJ, Kim HJ, Park JM.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the dosimetric effects of immobilization devices on the dose distributions of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) for lung cancer using volumetric-mo…
Pham D, Kron T, Styles C, Whitaker M et al.
Abdominal stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy is aided by motion management strategies to ensure accurate dose delivery as targets such as the kidney are easily influenced by breathing motion. Com…
Daly ME, Perks JR, Chen AM.
IntroductionRadiation oncologists were surveyed to assess practice patterns in the use of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for lung cancer.MethodsA customized patterns-of-care survey, consisting …
Peng Y.
Purpose To evaluate the effects of the couch, the immobilization/support devices, and air gap on the skin dose for SBRT treatment with abdominal compression device and to investigate strategies to min…
Gutiérrez AN, Stathakis S, Crownover R, Esquivel C et al.
In this study, a clinical evaluation of the Body Pro-Lok™ System combined with the TomoTherapy megavoltage computed tomography (MVCT) was performed for lung and liver stereotactic body radiotherapy (S…
Videtic GM, Stephans K, Reddy C, Gajdos S et al.
PurposeTo validate the use of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) using intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) beams for medically inoperable Stage I lung cancer.Methods and materialsFrom February …
Ricardi U, Filippi AR, Guarneri A, Giglioli FR et al.
Patients affected with early stage (IA-IB) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), deemed medically inoperable, are usually treated by conventional 3D-CRT, with poor results in terms of local tumour contr…
Nagata Y, Takayama K, Matsuo Y, Norihisa Y et al.
PurposeTo evaluate the clinical outcomes of 48 Gy of three-dimensional stereotactic radiotherapy in four fractions for treating Stage I lung cancer using a stereotactic body frame.Methods and material…
McGarry RC, Papiez L, Williams M, Whitford T et al.
PurposeA Phase I dose escalation study of stereotactic body radiation therapy to assess toxicity and local control rates for patients with medically inoperable Stage I lung cancer.Methods and material…
Hoyer M, Roed H, Sengelov L, Traberg A et al.
Background and purposeThe majority of patients with pancreatic cancer have advanced disease at the time of diagnosis and are not amenable for surgery. Stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) may be an alterna…
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