Simultaneous ThermoBrachytherapy: Electromagnetic Simulation Methods for Fast and Accurate Adaptive Treatment Planning

The combination of interstitial hyperthermia treatment (IHT) with high dose rate brachytherapy (HDR‐BT) can improve clinical outcomes since it highly enhances the efficiency of cell kill, especially when applied simultaneously. Therefore, we have developed the ThermoBrachy applicators. To effectively apply optimal targeted IHT, treatment...

Fast and fully-automated multi-criterial treatment planning for adaptive HDR brachytherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer

Purpose: To develop and evaluate a fast, automated multi-criterial treatment planning approach for adaptive high-dose-rate (HDR) intracavitary + interstitial brachytherapy (BT) for locally advanced cervical cancer. Methods and materials: Twenty-two previously delivered single fraction MRI-based HDR treatment plans (SF_clin) were...

Automated multi-criterial treatment planning for adaptive high-dose-rate brachytherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer

Purpose - To develop and evaluate a fast and automated multi-criterial treatment planning strategy for High-Dose-Rate (HDR) brachytherapy (BT) for patients with locally advanced cervical cancer. This automated strategy avoids suboptimal and slow manual treatment planning and results in reproducible and conformal treatment plans with a clinically...

Fast automated multi-criteria planning for HDR brachytherapy explored for prostate cancer

We developed a fast and fully-automated, multi-criteria treatment planning workflow for high dose rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT). In this workflow, the patient-CT with catheter reconstructions and dwell positions are imported from the clinical TPS into a novel system for automated dwell time optimisation. The optimised dwell times are then...