Task Group 101 of the AAPM has prepared this report for medical physicists, clinicians, and
therapists in order to outline the best practice guidelines for the external‐beam radiation …

In the last decade, there have been significant developments into integration of robots and
automation tools with brachytherapy delivery systems. These systems aim to improve the …

Purpose To characterize the effect of a prostate-rectum spacer on dose to rectum during
external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer and to assess for factors correlated with …

PURPOSE: Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a widely used tool for prospectively
evaluating safety and reliability. We report our experiences in applying FMEA in the setting …

PURPOSE: Dose escalation for lung cancer is limited by normal tissue toxicity. We evaluated
sequential computed tomography (CT) scans to assess the possibility of adaptively …

We present a robotically assisted prostate brachytherapy system and test results in training
phantoms and Phase-I clinical trials. The system consists of a transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) …

PURPOSE: To determine whether frameless thermoplastic mask-based immobilization is
adequate for image-guided cranial radiosurgery. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Cone-beam …

Prostate brachytherapy, administered by implanting tiny radioactive seeds to treat prostate
cancer, currently relies on transrectal ultrasound imaging for intraoperative visualization of the …

Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a rapidly evolving cancer treatment method in
which concepts and techniques previously developed for brain tumor radiosurgery are …

Purpose: To evaluate the incidence of gastrointestinal complications in patients with
inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) receiving radiotherapy (RT) and to identify possibly avoidable …