A device that uses high frequency electromagnetic waves to accelerate charged particles such as electrons to high energies through a linear tube. The high-energy electron beam itself can be used for treating superficial tumours or it can be made to strike a target to produce high-energy (MV) ...
Smartphones contain powerful and enabling technology components that can be re-applied toward procedural tasks commonly used in everyday clinical image-guided therapies and minimally invasive procedures that use three-dimensional information and feedback during procedures. Smartphone applications are a relativ...
Radio-guided surgery (RGS) is a surgical technique developed about 60 years ago that is crucial for those tumours for which resection is the only possible therapy [54]. It allows the surgeon to assess the completeness of the tumour lesion resection in realtime, minimizing the amount of healthy...
The selected articles give an insight into the progress of image-guided drug delivery over the past decades. While a significant part of literature on nanosystems is focused on targeted therapy for cancer, we dispute that only a small number can be considered as true image-guided drug delivery....
Image-guided fiducial marker placements and image-guided brachytherapy are preformed to aid in targeted radiation therapy treatment. View chapterExplore book Hematologic Malignancy Sarah J. Vinnicombe M.R.C.P., F.R.C.R., ... Ama Rohatiner M.D., in Oncologic Imaging: A Multidisciplinary Appro...
The pathology of varicose veins is due to weakening of vein valves, which causes accumulation of blood and bulging within superficial veins. Currently, several invasive and minimally invasive2 treatment methods3,4 are used for the treatment of varicose veins. An example of an invasive treatment ...
Image-guided superficial radiation therapyOncologic therapyBackground:Interest in image-guidance superficial radiation therapy (IGSRT) for the treatment of early-stage non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) has resurfaced given its low complication rates, superior cosmesis and local control and cure rates. ...
IMAGE-guided radiation therapyBASAL cell carcinomaHEALTH outcome assessmentSQUAMOUS cell carcinomaTUMOR classificationBackground/Objectives: Basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) and squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) are non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSCs) and the most prevalent cancers in the United States...
Image-Guided Drug Delivery In the emerging era of personalized medicine, the ability to provide optimal treatment to the “right patient at the right dose at the right time” is a central tenet. However, new tools are required to facilitate better customization of therapy based on the specific...
To assess the criticality of calculation deviations induced by fractional image-guided-couch-shifts for Halcyon MV cone beam CT (CBCT) dose, which is incorporated as part of total treatment dose. Methods Eclipse-calculated imaging dose was first validated in ‘Cheese Phantom’ by measurement. Then...