Medical Imaging and Application in Radiotherapy

Dear Colleagues,

Since 1895, with the discovery of radiation by Roentgen, it has been used to treat diseases. Up to now, radiation has been one of the major modalities to treat cancer. Radiation therapy has developed from the treatment field and was drawn on a plane film to computerized 3-dimensional volumetric treatment plan. Advances in medical imaging have played an indispensable role. High-quality radiation therapy relies on precise localization to deliver radiation within the body and accurate radiation dose calculation. The localization of the lesion for treatment depends on delicate medical imaging for geometric information, and electron density of tissues for radiation dose calculation. Image guidance is also an important issue when the patient lies on a couch for treatment. These are all about medical imaging for radiation therapy.

This Special Issue is proposed to reveal the medical imaging and application in radiotherapy. Architectures may include, but are not limited to, medical imaging applications for cancer treatment, novel concurrent algorithms and applications for radiation therapy dose calculation, medical imaging for treatment target delineation, radiation therapy treatment plan optimization, image guidance, treatment response evaluation by medical imaging, respiratory motion in medical imaging, and anything about radiation therapy. Artificial intelligence applications, computer assistance, and quality assurance in radiation therapy are also topics of interest.

This Special Issue will publish high-quality, original research papers in the overlapping fields of:

• Medical imaging;
• Radiation therapy;
• Target delineation;
• Medical image registration;
• Radiation dose calculation;
• Radiation treatment planning optimization;
• Image guidance;
• Respiratory control;
• Treatment response by medical imaging;
• Computer assistance radiotherapy;
• Quality assurance in radiotherapy.

Dr. Yujie Huang
Guest Editor

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• medical imaging
• radiation
• radiotherapy
• target delineation
• image registration
• radiation dose calculation
• optimization
• image guidance
• respiratory control
• treatment response
• quality assurance
• computer assistance