29 Results Found

Background/Objectives: In left-sided breast cancer radiotherapy, deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) reduces radiation dose to the heart; however, its success depends on the patient’s ability to maintain reproducible and stable breath-holds. Al...

Background/Objectives: Deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) is a commonly used technique to reduce the mean heart dose (MHD), which is critical for minimizing late cardiac side effects in breast cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy (RT). Altho...

Background: This work presents the procedures and application of the deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) technique for mediastinal lymphoma patients at a proton therapy (PT) center. It also discusses the implementation and validation of the surface-g...

Purpose: to predict eligibility for deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) radiotherapy (RT) treatment of patients with left breast cancer from analysis of respiratory signal, using Deep Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BLSTM) recurrent neural netw...

Radiotherapy represents an essential part of the therapeutic algorithm for breast cancer patients after conservative surgery. The treatment of left-sided tumors has been associated with a non-negligible risk of developing late-onset cardiovascular di...

Background: Electromagnetic transponders bronchoscopically implanted near the tumor can be used to monitor deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH) for thoracic radiation therapy (RT). The feasibility and safety of this approach require further study. Met...

Background: Several studies have investigated cardiac dose reduction when utilizing the deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH) technique in patients undergoing radiotherapy for left-sided breast cancer. This paper aims to recommend potential selection c...

Hodgkin lymphomas are radiosensitive and curable tumors that often involve the mediastinum. However, the application of radiation therapy to the mediastinum is associated with late effects including cardiac and pulmonary toxicities and secondary canc...

Left-sided breast cancer radiotherapy can lead to late cardiovascular complications, including ischemic events. To mitigate these risks, cardiac-sparing techniques such as deep-inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) and intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT...

Deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) is an excellent technique to reduce the incidental radiation received by the heart during radiotherapy in patients with breast cancer. However, DIBH is costly and time-consuming for patients and radiotherapy staff....

Online adaptive radiotherapy mitigates errors in absorbed dose delivery due to daily anatomical changes during hypofractionated breast treatment, particularly when comprehensive nodal therapy includes the internal mammary chain. To illustrate this, w...

Breast radiotherapy can lead to radiation-induced cardiac disease, particularly in left breast cancers. Recent studies have shown that subclinical cardiac lesions, such as myocardial perfusion deficits, may occur early after radiotherapy. The primary...

This study examined the impact of different breath-holding conditions on iliopsoas and other hip flexor muscle activity in individuals with chronic ankle instability (CAI). It has been hypothesised that impaired diaphragmatic function influences ilio...

We propose fast phase-contrast cine magnetic resonance imaging (PC-cine MRI) to allow breath-hold acquisition, and we compared intracranial hemo- and hydrodynamic parameters obtained during breath holding between full inspiration and end expiration....

Purpose: This study aimed to compare QoL outcomes among patients undergoing active breathing control (ABC), voluntary deep inspiration breath hold (vDIBH), and surface-guided radiation therapy (SGRT). Methods: This was a non-randomized, three-arm cli...

Oxygen-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (OE-MRI) enables non-invasive assessment of lung function by measuring longitudinal relaxation time (T1) changes induced by alternating inhalation of room air and pure oxygen. In this study, the pulmonary T1...

To reduce the risk of syncope, trained breath-hold divers (BHDs) use a specialized breathing technique after surfacing called “hook breathing” (HB). It consists of a full inspiration followed by a Valsalva-like maneuver and with subsequen...

The interplay effect is a challenge when using proton scanning beams for the treatment of thoracic and abdominal cancers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the facility-specific interplay effect in terms of dose distortion and irradiation time fo...

Mediastinal radiotherapy plays a central role in the treatment of several malignancies, particularly Hodgkin lymphoma and breast cancer. However, exposure to thoracic radiation is associated with long-term cardiovascular complications, among which va...

The goal of this paper is to evaluate the potential of a low-cost, ultra-wideband radar system for detecting and monitoring respiratory motion during radiation therapy treatment delivery. Radar signals from breathing motion patterns simulated using a...

This study evaluated dose differences in normal organs at risk, such as the lungs, heart, left anterior descending artery (LAD), right coronary artery, left ventricle, and right breast under personalized breast holder (PERSBRA), when using intensity-...

Background: The current scientific literature is inconsistent regarding the potential beneficial or deleterious effects of high-intensity physical activities on the pelvic floor (PF) in women. So far, it has not been established with certainty whethe...

Background: For advanced breast cancer with lymph node involvement, adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) with regional nodal irradiation (RNI) has been indicated to reduce cancer recurrence and mortality. However, an extensive RT volume is associated with norm...

Women with left-sided breast cancer receiving adjuvant radiotherapy have increased incidence of cardiac mortality due to ischemic heart disease; to date, no threshold dose for late cardiac/pulmonary morbidity or mortality has been established. We inv...

Background: This study aims to assess the benefit of a deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH) over the standard irradiation technique, and eventually to identify anatomical and/or treatment preplanning characteristics correlated with the LAD dose. Metho...

Deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH) radiotherapy is a technique used to manage early stage left-sided breast cancer. This study compared dosimetric indices of patient-specific X-ray versus proton therapy DIBH plans to explore differences in target co...

With the introduction of modern sophisticated radiotherapy (RT) techniques, the significance of accuracy has increased considerably. This study evaluated the necessity of pre-treatment and intra-fractional cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) by anal...

Over the past two decades, interest in prone-position whole breast irradiation (WBI) as an effective and practical alternative to supine treatment has been growing a lot. Although solid scientific data has provided evidence of substantial dosimetric...

Background/Objectives: Over the past decade, significant advances have been made in image-guided radiotherapy (RT) particularly with the introduction of magnetic resonance (MR)-guided radiotherapy (MRgRT). However, the optimal clinical applications o...