Refining Treatment Planning in STereotactic Arrhythmia Radioablation: Benchmark Results and Consensus Statement From the STOPSTORM.eu Consortium.

Purpose: STereotactic Arrhythmia Radioablation (STAR) showed promising results in patients with refractory ventricular tachycardia. However, clinical data are scarce and heterogeneous. The STOPSTORM.

Clinical Validation of Siemens' Syngo.via Automatic Contouring System.

Purpose: The manual delineation of organs at risk is a process that requires a great deal of time both for the technician and for the physician. Availability of validated software tools assisted by artificial intelligence would be of great benefit, as it would significantly improve the radiation therapy workflow, reducing the time required for segmentation. The purpose of this article is to validate the deep learning-based autocontouring solution integrated in syngo.

Machine learning-based automated planning for hippocampal avoidance prophylactic cranial irradiation.

Purpose: Design and evaluate a knowledge-based model using commercially available artificial intelligence tools for automated treatment planning to efficiently generate clinically acceptable hippocampal avoidance prophylactic cranial irradiation (HA-PCI) plans in patients with small-cell lung cancer.

Materials And Methods: Data from 44 patients with different grades of head flexion (range 45°) were used as the training datasets. A Rapid Plan knowledge-based planning (KB) routine was applied for a prescription of 25 Gy in 10 fractions using two volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) arcs.

Validation of 3D printing materials for high dose-rate brachytherapy using ionisation chamber and custom phantom.

Measurements were taken with the Exradin A20 (Standard Imaging) ionisation chamber, and the 'homemade' MARM phantom was made with the 3D Ultimaker 2+ printer using PLA material. The material used for validation was ABS Medical from Smart Materials 3D. The irradiation was undertaken with aIr source by means of Varian's GammaMed Plus iX HDR equipment.

Relationship between radiation-induced apoptosis of T lymphocytes and chronic toxicity in patients with prostate cancer treated by radiation therapy: a prospective study.

Purpose: To assess the correlation of radiation-induced apoptosis in vitro of CD4 and CD8 T lymphocytes with late toxicity of prostate cancer patients treated with radiation therapy.

Methods And Materials: 214 patients were prospectively included in the study. Peripheral blood was drawn from patients before treatment and irradiated with 8 Gy.

Five-year outcomes, cosmesis, and toxicity with 3-dimensional conformal external beam radiation therapy to deliver accelerated partial breast irradiation.

Purpose: To report the interim results from a study comparing the efficacy, toxicity, and cosmesis of breast-conserving treatment with accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) or whole breast irradiation (WBI) using 3-dimensional conformal external beam radiation therapy (3D-CRT).

Methods And Materials: 102 patients with early-stage breast cancer who underwent breast-conserving surgery were randomized to receive either WBI (n=51) or APBI (n=51). In the WBI arm, 48 Gy was delivered to the whole breast in daily fractions of 2 Gy, with or without additional 10 Gy to the tumor bed.

Long-term results and prognostic factors of patients with cervical carcinoma treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy.

Aims And Background: To evaluate the predictive factors of recurrence in cervical cancer treated with radical radiochemotherapy.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of 56 women was performed. Response was assessed using the RECIST response.

Predictors of acute esophagitis in lung cancer patients treated with concurrent three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Purpose: To evaluate the risk factors for acute esophagitis (AET) in lung cancer patients treated with concurrent 3D-CRT and chemotherapy.

Methods And Materials: Data from 100 patients treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy with a mean dose of 62.05 +/- 4.

Prevention of radiochemotherapy-induced esophagitis with glutamine: results of a pilot study.

Purpose: To assess the usefulness of oral glutamine to prevent radiochemotherapy-induced esophagitis in patients with lung cancer, and to determine the dosimetric parameter predictive of esophagitis.

Methods And Materials: Seventy-five patients were enrolled; 34.7% received sequential radiochemotherapy, and 65.