Findings – Ethical Aspects
Category Relevant incidental finding Recommended action Strong net benefit Information revealing a condition likely to be life-threatening Information revealing a condition likely to be grave that can be avoided or…
Aspects and Informed Consent
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Sabine Weckbach (ed.)Incidental Radiological FindingsMedical Radiology10.1007/174_2016_35 Medicolegal Aspects and Informed Consent Leonard Berlin1, 2, 3 (1) Radiology Department, Skokie Hospital, 9600 Gross Point Road, Skokie, IL 60076, USA (2) Rush…
Findings: Definition of the Concept
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Sabine Weckbach (ed.)Incidental Radiological FindingsMedical Radiology10.1007/174_2016_96 Incidental Findings: Definition of the Concept Reinold Schmücker1 (1) Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany Reinold Schmücker Email: schmuecker@uni-muenster.de Abstract In a broad…
Computer-Assisted Target Volume Determination
Fig. 5.1 Definitions of target volumes This chapter introduces the automated segmentation approaches for the GTV, the basics of CTV-to-PTV margins, and computational determination of the CTV-to-PTV margin based on…
Surface-Imaging-Based Patient Positioning in Radiation Therapy
Fig. 10.1 Illustration of the applications of surface-imaging systems in radiation therapy in the estimation of (a) inter-fractional and (b) intra-fractional setup errors The main advantages of surface-imaging systems are…
Computer-Assisted Treatment Planning Approaches for Carbon-Ion Beam Therapy
Fig. 7.1 Dose distribution with passive scattering carbon-ion radiotherapy (CIRT) (upper panel) and IMRT (lower panel). Yellow arrows show beam fields (With permission from Tsujii et al. 2014) In this…
X-Ray Image-Based Patient Positioning
Fig. 9.1 IGRT workflow. Treatment planning CT; the structures and fiducial point of the treatment planning are included in a reference set of the image registration for in-room imaging. After…
Visualization of Dose Distributions for Proton
Fig. 13.1 Characteristic of dose distributions in the depth direction in proton therapy and common X-ray therapy Fig. 13.2 Proton therapy system in National Cancer Center Hospital East Japan Proton…
Visualization of Dose Distributions for Photon Beam Radiation Therapy During Treatment Delivery
(12.1) where r is the three-dimensional (3D) position vector, D is the dose, T is the total energy released per unit mass (TERMA), and K is the dose deposition kernel…
Computer-Assisted Treatment Planning Approaches for SBRT
Fig. 6.1 Conceptual scheme of similar-case-based radiotherapy treatment planning 6.5 Similar-Case-Based Beam Angle Optimization The accuracy and efficiency of beam arrangement determinations could potentially be improved by combining similar-case-based treatment…
