Publications by authors named "Cecilia Cadioli"
Article Synopsis
- Body size, specifically Body Surface Area (BSA), is the strongest predictor of radiation dose received during percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), with other factors like height and female sex also influencing dose outcomes.
- A study analyzed 6,623 PCIs, finding that an increase in BSA significantly raises the fluoroscopy dose rate and total radiation dose, while patients with higher height and female sex received less dose.
- Understanding these relationships can help clinicians better adjust X-ray usage based on individual patient characteristics, particularly in light of growing complexities in PCI and rising obesity rates.
Background: Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) enables a better conformality to the target while sparing the surrounding normal tissues and potentially allows to increase the dose to the target, if this is precisely and accurately determined. The goal of this work is to determine inter-fraction setup errors and prostate motion in IMRT for localized prostate cancer, guided by daily kilovoltage cone beam computed tomography (kVCBCT).
Methods: Systematic and random components of the shifts were retrospectively evaluated by comparing two matching modalities (automatic bone and manual soft-tissue) between each of the 641 daily kVCBCTs (18 patients) and the planning kVCT.