IS2aR, a computational tool to transform voxelized reference phantoms into patient-specific whole-body virtual CTs for peripheral dose estimation

It is well known that radiotherapy (RT) is a very effective treatment applied in more than 50  % of all cancer patients. One crucial part of its development has been making RT as personalized as possible (e.g., image-guided and biology-guided adapted RT). However, despite the non-negligible proportion of second cancers related to RT and an increasing number of RT patients showing long-term survival ([1] and references therein), the minimization of second cancer induction risk has not been usually considered in the personalization process.
Source: Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Technical Note Source Type: research