Clin Transl Radiat Oncol
September 2024
Aims: Evaluate effectiveness and safety of multiple HyperArc courses and patterns of progression in patients affected by BMs with intracranial progression.
Methods: 56 patients were treated for 702 BMs with 197 (range 2-8) HyperArc courses in case of exclusive intracranial progression. Primary end-point was the overall survival (OS), secondary end-points were intracranial progression-free survival (iPFS), toxicity, local control (LC), neurological death (ND), and whole-brain RT (WBRT)-free survival.
The present study reports the preliminary outcomes in terms of adverse events and quality of life in the first 100 patients treated with 1.5T MR-guided daily-adaptive stereotactic body radiotherapy for prostate cancer. From October 2019 to December 2020, 100 patients, enrolled in a prospective study, received MR-guided SBRT for prostate cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Prostate re-irradiation is an attractive treatment option in the case of local relapse after previous radiotherapy, either in the definitive or in the post-operative setting. In this scenario, the introduction of MR-linacs may represent a helpful tool to improve the accuracy and precision of the treatment.
Methods: This study reports the preliminary data of a cohort of 22 patients treated with 1.
Purpose: Adaptive stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for prostate cancer (PC) by the 1.5 T MR-linac currently requires online planning by an expert user. A fully automated and user-independent solution to adaptive planning (mCycle) of PC-SBRT was compared with user's plans for the 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: MR-guided daily-adaptive radiotherapy is improving the accuracy in the planning and delivery phases of the treatment. Rectal hydrogel-spacer may help in mitigating organ motion, but few data are currently available.
Methods: We aimed to assess any potential impact of the device on seminal vesicles motion by measuring translational and rotational shifts between the pre- and post-treatment MRI scans of a total of 50 fractions in the first 10 patients who underwent MR-guided prostate SBRT (35 Gy/5 fx).
Purpose: We report preliminary dosimetric data concerning the use of 1.5-T MR-guided daily-adaptive radiotherapy for abdomino-pelvic lymph-nodal oligometastases. We aimed to assess the impact of this technology on mitigating daily variations for both target coverage and organs-at-risk (OARs) sparing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt is established that human movements in the vicinity of a permanent static magnetic field, such as those in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners induce electric fields in the human body; this raises potential severe risks of health to radiographers and cleaners exposed routinely to these fields in MRI rooms. The relevant directives and parameters, however, are based on theoretical models, and accurate studies on the simulation of the effects based on human movement data obtained in real conditions are still lacking. Two radiographers and one cleaner, familiar with MRI room activities and these directives, were gait analyzed during the execution of routine job motor tasks at different velocities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To report preliminary data on feasibility and patient-reported outcomes following PSMA-PET/CT guided SBRT by means of 1.5 T MRI-Linac.
Methods And Materials: Between October 2019 and April 2020, twenty consecutive castration sensitive oligorecurrent prostate cancer patients were enrolled in an ethical committee approved prospective observational study (Protocol n.
Purpose: Adaptive Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) of prostate cancer (PC) by online 1.5 T MRi-guidance prolongs session-time, due to contouring and planning tasks, thus increasing the risk of prostate motion. Hence, the interest to verify the adequacy of the delivered dose.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDoes the exposure of magnetic resonance imaging personnel to static magnetic fields fully comply with Directive 2013/35/EU? Despite the obligation to satisfy this question, a general answer cannot be provided, nor are final satisfying good practices methods for exposure assessment currently available. In order to contribute to fix this problem, three different 1.5 T scanners are analysed and - by a new theoretical insight - a positive answer is provided.
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