Patient Immobilization · Literature Radar
Vacuum-bag immobilisation reproducibility for SBRT, lung, abdomen, pelvis and whole-body workflows. Curated daily from Europe PMC (PubMed + PMC + preprints) and OpenAlex — free-full-text link on each open-access paper.
Nomura Y, Tanaka S, Takei H, Maeda K et al.
PurposeThis study quantified inter- and intra-fractional setup accuracies in the upright posture and compared them among setups with different immobilization methods.MethodsTwo and four setups were ex…
Lin W, Xiao C, Xiao L, Fang J et al.
ObjectiveThis study aimed to develop and validate an unsupervised machine learning-based approach for near-real-time alerting of statistically abnormal six-dimensional (6D) radiotherapy setup errors. …
Lin X, Piao Z, Huang X, Huang H et al.
IntroductionTo assess radiotherapy plans quality, the reproducibility of the targets and organs at risk (OARs) in cervical cancer radiotherapy with different immobilizations and positioning.MethodsSix…
Challapalli S, Choudhary A, Nagesh J, C S et al.
IntroductionThis study aims to analyze the impact of the surface dose at depth (1-5mm) in different planning techniques and immobilization devices by varying the dose-voxel size (DVS) and statistical …
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…
Liu Q, Chen X, Hu Z, Hou L et al.
PurposeTo evaluate the fitting accuracy and dose influence of 3D-printed bolus (3DPB) during postmastectomy radiotherapy.MethodsAir gaps were assessed using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images…
Varnava M, Kawashima M, Matsumura A, Oohashi Y et al.
Background and purposeUpright patient positioning is an emerging approach in radiotherapy that may overcome current limitations in carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT). This study evaluated upright immobili…
Nair P, Sasidharan A, Kalavagunta S, Bhaskaran P et al.
Breast radiotherapy, typically administered using tangential fields in the supine position, employs various strategies to improve dose uniformity and minimize radiation exposure to sensitive organs. H…
Wang H, Pi Y, Liu C, Wang P et al.
PurposeThis study aims to compare the technical characteristics of TomoDirect (TD) radiotherapy and TomoHelical (HT) radiotherapy in total skin irradiation (TSI) applications. We conducted a comprehen…
Cai JH, Peng X, Lu JY, Lu JY.
PurposeTo evaluate the impact of patient setup errors on the dosimetry and radiobiological models of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for esophageal cancer.Methods and materialsThis retrospecti…
Zhao L, Zhang L, Hu Y, Zhong Y.
BackgroundImmobilization devices are essential for maintaining accurate and repeatable patient positioning in radiotherapy. This study aimed to evaluate the setup errors and dosimetric deviation induc…
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…
Ruan J, Huang X, Wang T, Mai X et al.
ObjectiveThe objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of different belly board and daily changes in patient's body-mass factor (BMF) on setup displacement in radiotherapy for rectal cancer.Me…
Li C, Xiao YP, Huang L, Jing W et al.
PurposeTo minimize radiation exposure to the small bowel (SB) in patients undergoing treatment for gynecological tumors by adopting a comfortable positioning method.Methods and patientsAll 76 women un…
Dean J, Anderson N, Halkett GKB, Lye J et al.
BackgroundAccelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) is an accepted treatment option for early breast cancer. Treatment delivered on the Magnetic Resonance integrated Linear Accelerator (MRL) provi…
Boisbouvier S, Martel-Lafay I, Tanguy R, Ayadi-Zahra M.
PurposeThe main objective of this study was to assess inter- and intrafraction errors for two patient immobilisation devices in the context of lung stereotactic body radiation therapy: a vacuum cushio…
Iseri T, Hira N, Tanabe Y, Horikirizono H et al.
BackgroundIntensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), which allows generating steep dose gradients, is a beneficial treatment for companion animals with adjacent target and risk organs. IMRT is essential…
Deshazer G, Narayanasamy G, Bimali M, Galhardo E et al.
Purpose. This is a dosimetric study comparing stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) plans of spine tumors using Brainlab Elements Spine planning module against Eclipse RapidArc plans. Dose conformity,…
Leung EW, Gladwish AP, Davidson MTM, Taggar A et al.
Purpose/objective(s)Adjuvant radiation plays a significant role in reducing locoregional recurrences in uterine cancers. Standard treatment consists of daily radiation for 5 weeks which can be challen…
Dougherty M, Mullikin TC, Park SS.
Purpose/objective(s)To report the techniques of treating primary tumors and metastases of the spine with stereotactic proton ablative radiotherapy.Materials/methodsRobustly optimized IMPT plans were g…
Wang C, Xie Y, Hu Z, Yin FF et al.
Purpose/objective(s)To compare dosimetric results of two beam arrangement strategies and their robustness to setup uncertainties in fractionated thoracic spine Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) MA…
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…
Song Y, Peng J, Chen Q, Luo H.
Background: This study aimed to analyze the difference of setup reproducibility between Vacuum-lock bag and Thermoplastic mask in the radiotherapy for breast cancer. Methods: A total of 100 invasive b…
Werensteijn-Honingh AM, Jürgenliemk-Schulz IM, Gadellaa-Van Hooijdonk CG, Sikkes GG et al.
Background and purposeVacuum cushion immobilization is commonly used during stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) to reduce intrafraction motion. We investigated target and bony anatomy intrafraction …
Feldman AM, Modh A, Glide-Hurst C, Chetty IJ et al.
Background Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a proven and effective modality for treatment of hepatic primary and metastatic tumors. However, these lesions are challenging for planning and…
Chen G, Dong B, Shan G, Zhang X et al.
BackgroundAn accurate, reproducible, and comfortable immobilization device is essential for stereotactic radiotherapy (SBRT) in patients with lung cancer. This study compared thermoplastic masks (TMP)…
Haraldsson A, Engellau J, Lenhoff S, Engelholm S et al.
Total Marrow Irradiation (TMI) with Helical Tomotherapy is a radiotherapy treatment technique that targets bone marrow and sanctuary sites prior to stem cell or bone marrow transplantation (SCT/BMT). …
Li W, Jiang Z, Chu K, Jin J et al.
PurposeTo develop an infrared optical method of reducing surface-based registration error caused by respiration to improve radiotherapy setup accuracy for patients with abdominal or pelvic tumors.Mate…
Pan JH, Yu DD, Song QB, Ruan CL et al.
ObjectiveThe skin marking method (SMM) and bow-form-ruler marking method (BFRM) are two commonly used patient marking methods in mainland China. This study aims to evaluate SMM and BFRM by comparing t…
Rijken J, Kairn T, Crowe S, Muñoz L et al.
PurposeThe ability to accurately predict skin doses and thereby design radiotherapy treatments that balance the likelihood of skin reactions against other treatment objectives is especially important …
Udayashankar AH, Noorjahan S, Srikantia N, Babu KR et al.
AimTo identify the most reproducible technique of patient positioning and immobilization during pelvic radiotherapy.BackgroundRadiotherapy plays an important role in the treatment of pelvic malignanci…
Swinscoe JA, Dickie CI, Ireland RH.
Radiation therapy for limb-extremity soft tissue sarcoma (STS) requires accurate, reproducible dose delivery. However, patient positioning is challenging and there is a lack of existing guidelines to …
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 …
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…
Lin CG, Xu SK, Yao WY, Wu YQ et al.
IntroductionIn intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients, an effective immobilisation system is important to minimise set up deviation. This study evaluated th…
Navarro-Martin A, Cacicedo J, Leaman O, Sancho I et al.
BackgroundTo compare thermoplastic masks (TMP) and vacuum cushion system (VCS) to assess differences in interfraction set up accuracy in patients treated with stereotactic radiotherapy (SBRT) for olig…
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…
Bae SH, Kim MS, Jang WI, Kay CS et al.
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate the current status of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) in Korea. A nationwide survey was conducted by the Korean Stereotactic Radiosurgery Group…
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…
Cendales R, Vásquez J, Arbelaez J, Bobadilla I et al.
PurposeTo compare dosimetric results of the use of RapidArc® with simultaneous integrated boost, sliding window intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) with simultaneous integrated boost, and conforma…
Saini G, Aggarwal A, Jafri SA, Goel V et al.
IntroductionWe commonly use 6- and 4-clamped thermoplastic molds (TMs) for rigid immobilization during pelvic radiotherapy (RT), sometimes a vacuum cushion (VC) is also used as leg support with TM. Ou…
Swamy ST, Radha CA, Kathirvel M, Arun G et al.
BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) based volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for locally advanced left sided breast cancer pat…
Duma MN, Geinitz H, Kampfer S, Kesting MR.
Head and neck cancers that are associated with high-risk factors have a poor prognosis. In such patients, post-operative radiochemotherapy is mandatory. The present study describes the case of a 71-ye…
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 …
Cronin B, McCarthy A, Claire K, Starling P et al.
PurposeHighly complex planning techniques and delivery methods in the treatment of head and neck cancer require an advanced level of accuracy and reproducibility.AimTo determine if the addition of tat…
Gayou O, Day E, Mohammadi S, Kirichenko A.
PurposeTo describe a simple method of coregistration of nonanatomic liver SPECT and CT images acquired in separate sessions for three-dimensional (3D)-CRT planning utilizing dual radiolabeled and radi…
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…
Josipovic M, Persson GF, Logadottir A, Smulders B et al.
BackgroundImplementation of cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) in frameless stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) of lung tumours enables setup correction based on tumour position. The aim of this s…
Dhakal S, Corbin KS, Milano MT, Philip A et al.
PurposePatients with pulmonary metastases (PM) from soft-tissue sarcomas (STS) have historically been treated with surgery and/or chemotherapy. Since 2001, we have treated PM with stereotactic body ra…
Li W, Purdie TG, Taremi M, Fung S et al.
PurposeTo assess intrafractional geometric accuracy of lung stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) patients treated with volumetric image guidance.Methods and materialsTreatment setup accuracy was…
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…
Nichol AM, Warde PR, Lockwood GA, Kirilova AK et al.
PurposeTo determine the reduction of prostate motion during a typical radiotherapy (RT) fraction from a bowel regimen comprising an antiflatulent diet and daily milk of magnesia.Methods and materialsF…
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 …
Nakamura K, Yoshikawa H, Akai T, Nomoto S et al.
We have developed a new body fixation system for single patient use, which consists of a vacuum cushion, a thermoplastic fixation sheet which is used to suppress involuntary and voluntary patient move…
Kim S, Jin H, Yang H, Amdur RJ.
PurposeTo investigate the amount of target positioning error and evaluate its dosimetric impact during image-guided stereotactic body radiotherapy for single-fraction spine treatment.Methods and mater…
Harmon J, Van Ufflen D, Larue S.
The purpose of this study was to utilize state-of-the-art on-board digital kilovoltage (kV) imaging to determine the systematic and random set-up errors of an immobilization device designed for canine…
Zhou J, Uhl B, Dewitt K, Young M et al.
We investigated the use of a BodyLoc immobilization and stereotactic localization device combined with TomoTherapy megavoltage CT (MVCT) in lung stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) to reduce set-up …
Li H, Zhu XR, Zhang L, Dong L et al.
PurposeTo assess the positioning accuracy using two-dimensional kilovoltage (2DkV) imaging and three-dimensional cone beam CT (CBCT) in patients with head and neck (H&N) cancer receiving radiation the…
Hoogeman MS, Nuyttens JJ, Levendag PC, Heijmen BJ.
PurposeTo quantify intrafraction patient motion and its time dependence in immobilized intracranial and extracranial patients. The data can be used to optimize the intrafraction imaging frequency and …
Bush DA, Slater JD, Garberoglio C, Yuh G et al.
PurposeTo develop a breast immobilization system and clinical technique to deliver partial breast irradiation with a proton beam and compare dose distributions using proton therapy and conformal x-ray…
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