Radiation Oncology

• A 3D vision approach for correction of patient pose in radiotherapy
• A Monte-Carlo Simulation of the Princess Alexandra Hospital's IMRT Quality Assurance Procedure
• A novel methodology for 3D deformable dosimetry
• Annealing and reuse of MOSFET dosimeter
• Calibration of Ionisation Chambers at ARPANSA
• Characterisation of Ru-106 eye plaques for the improvement of quality assurance in eye brachytherapy
• Clinical Impact of Electron Density Calibration on Dose Calculation
• Clinical Implementation of Hypofractionated Body Radiotherapy at Royal North Shore Hospital
• Clinical implementation of image guided, respiratory motion managed, hypo-fractionated radiotherapy of liver and lung tumours
• Clinical implementation of VMAT using Elekta linacs and Oncentra Masterplan TPS
• Clinical trials radiotherapy treatment plan review software: is this the first quantified assessment?
• Commissioning of a MatriXX Evolution for IMRT and VMAT verification
• Comparison of digitally reconstructed radiographs (DRRs) generated from 4-Slice and 64-Slice helical CT scanners: a phantom study
• Comparison of measured and calculated contralateral breast doses in whole breast radiotherapy for VMAT and standard tangent techniques
• Computational Modelling of Radiotherapy Treatment Equipment - Relationship Between the Intricate Details of A Radiotherapy Treatment Beam and Its Subsequent Dose Distributions
• Detection of TPS dose calculation error in head and neck IMRT patient
• Determining the most Stable Breathing Phase for Respiratory Gating using Velocity Deformable Registration in Patients with Lung Cancer
• Development of a 2D array silicon detector “Magic Plate” for the dosimetric verification of IMRT treatment delivery
• Development of a software and methodology to perform control-point based dose verification of VMAT delivery using EPID
• Direct Calibration of Ionization Chambers in Linac Photon Beams at ARPANSA
• Early Simulations for The Australian MRI-Linac Project (AMP)
• Efficient, TG-142-Compliant, Weekly and Monthly MLC Quality Assurance Procedures Using a Varian aS500 EPID
• Evaluation of EBT GAFCHROMIC film for Compensator based Intensity modulated radiation therapy
• Evaluation of Gafchromic EBT2 Film for Beam Data Collection
• Evaluation of MotionSim XY/4D^TMfor Patient-specific QA of Respiratory Gated Treatment for Lung Cancer
• Evaluation of the iPlan Monte Carlo algorithm using the PENELOPE Monte Carlo code
• Gating treatment delivery QA based on a surrogate motion analysis
• Image Guided Radiotherapy: Performance of a Cone Beam CT Automatic Image Registration of the Prostate
• Imaging dose with cine-kV acquisition during treatment for prostate radiotherapy
• Implementing ICRU 83 Recommendations with IMRT in Clinical Trials – The TROG 08.03 ‘RAVES’ Experience
• IMRT QA: Does one size fit all?
• Independent Monitor Unit (MU) verification of IMRT plans using a 3D dose calculation engine in a different treatment planning systems
• Investigation of the dosimetric properties of a flood field corrected Siemens Optivue 1000ST and Elekta iViewGT Electronic Portal Imaging Device
• Is it sensible to ‘deform’ doses? : Experimental validation of dose deformation calculation with the first 3D deformable dosimeter
• Junction effects of RapidArc head and neck treatments
• Light Collection Simulations in BeO Fibre Optic Dosimetry
• Methodology for assessment of impact of contouring variation on clinical trial design
• Modelling and measurement of inter-seed attenuation effects on dosimetry of I-125 seed implants for prostate brachytherapy
• Monte Carlo modeling of diode detectors for small field MV photon dosimetry
• Monte Carlo Modelling the Response of a High Resolution Silicon Dosimeter in Synchrotron Microbeam Radiation Therapy X-ray Fields
• Monte Carlo Simulations of Necrotic Cell Targeted Alpha Therapy
• Normalization Issue for AAA Algorithm
• Ongoing development of digital radiotherapy plan review tools
• Optical surface mapping to complement use of CBCT in SBRT of lung
• Optical tomographic in-air scanner for external radiation beam 3D gel dosimetry
• Optimisation of multiple isocentre stereotactic radiosurgery planning
• Optimising Radiotherapy Outcomes – Scheduling Patient Waiting Lists For Maximum Population Tumour Control
• Orientation-dependent effects observed in Gafchromic EBT2 film using a point densitometer
• Palliative and Low Cost Radiotherapy in Developing Countries
• Passive Accumulation of Au Nanoparticles in Tumours in Mice
• Point-counterpoint: Quo Vadis Radiotherapy. EBRT, as the Technology cost Increases, vs Other Treatment Modalities in the War on Cancer
• Preliminary validation of a Monte Carlo model for IMRT fields
• Progress report on the ICARIS project
• Quality indicators for permanent I-125 prostate seed implants: seven years post implant dosimetry evaluation
• Radioluminescence of Fluoroperovskites as Fibre Coupled Dosimeters for Radiotherapy
• Radiosensitization for keV and MeV photons and protons with Au Nanoparticles
• Repeat CT Imaging For Boost Treatment-Planning During Intact Breast Irradiation: Does The Secondary CT Imaging Need To Be Done?
• Scintillation Dosimetry Array based on Air Core Technology
• Shutters to remove background Cerenkov signals in scintillation dosimetry
• Small radiotherapy photon field dosimetry using measurements and Monte Carlo simulation
• Suitability of real-time EPID tracking for tumour position verification in gated radiotherapy
• The Dosimetric Effect Of Calcifications In Prostate Brachytherapy: A Geant4-Based Study
• The dosimetry of eye shields for kilovoltage x-ray beams
• The effect of a titanium implant on the accuracy of a calculated radiotherapy dose
• The effect of varying acquisition sequences on MRI distortion and its impact on radiotherapy planning
• The impact of incorrect electron density data on External Beam Radiotherapy for cervical cancer patients
• The Implementation of an In-Vivo Diode Dosimetry Program
• The influence of focal spot size, shape, emission profile and position on field coverage in a Gulmay D3300 kilovoltage unit
• The treatment accuracy of hypofractionated spine and other highly conformal IMRT treatments
• The TROG ANROTAT project – just another acronym?
• TLD-100H accuracy for kilovoltage cone-beam CT out-of-field measurements
• Towards Development of an Image-guided Radiotherapy System to Treat Deforming Tumours in Real-Time
• Treatment technique evolution and dosimetry trends over seven years of prostate brachytherapy at the Royal Adelaide Hospital
• Uncertainty evaluation in absorbed dose to water calibration with high energy photon beams at ARPANSA
• Update on Radiotherapy Support for PNG
• Validation of common deformable image registration (DIR) algorithms with a novel deformable dosimeter/phantom
• Validation of Cranial Autosegmentation in Brainlab iPlan RT Image 4.1
• Varian 21iX with CBCT photon spectra evaluated in silico: Dosimetric consequences
• Verification and Optimization of HDR Surface Mould Brachytherapy Plans using Gafchromic® EBT2 Film: The Ideal Geometric Case
• Verification of the transmission through the IGRT Exact couch structure in the Eclipse treatment planning system for dynamic fields
• Volumetric Imaging in Image-Guided Radiotherapy of the Post-Prostatectomy Surgical bed
• Water equivalence study of radiochromic polymer gels for brachytherapy dosimetry, a Monte Carlo investigation
• What’s that golf ball doing in my patient?

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