Open AccessEvaluation of Varian’s SmartAdapt for clinical use in radiation therapy for patients with thoracic lesions
Author(s) -
Vickress Jason,
Rangel Baltazar Maria Alejandra,
Afsharpour Hossein
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of applied clinical medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.83
H-Index - 48
ISSN - 1526-9914
DOI - 10.1002/acm2.13194
Subject(s) - nuclear medicine , image registration , sørensen–dice coefficient , medicine , radiation therapy , radiology , computer science , artificial intelligence , segmentation , image segmentation , image (mathematics)
Deformable image registration (DIR) is a required tool in any adaptive radiotherapy program to help account for anatomical changes that occur during a multifraction treatment. SmartAdapt is a DIR tool from Varian incorporated within the eclipse treatment planning system, that can be used for contour propagation and transfer of PET, MRI, or computed tomography (CT) data. The purpose of this work is to evaluate the registration and contour propagation accuracy of SmartAdapt for thoracic CT studies using the guidelines from AAPM TG 132.