Image-Guided Radiotherapy

The use of pre-treatment imaging modalities to position the patient, delineate the target, and align the beam of radiation to achieve optimal accuracy and reduce radiation damage to surrounding non-target tissues.

Also Known As:

Radiotherapy, Image-Guided; Image-Guided Radiation Therapy; Radiotherapy Target Organ Alignment; Target Organ Alignment, Radiotherapy; Image Guided Radiation Therapy; Image-Guided Radiation Therapies; Image-Guided Radiotherapies; Radiation Therapies, Image-Guided; Radiation Therapy, Image-Guided; Radiotherapies, Image-Guided; Radiotherapy, Image Guided; Therapies, Image-Guided Radiation; Therapy, Image-Guided Radiation

Networked: 813 relevant articles (32 outcomes, 89 trials/studies)

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Therapy Context: Research Results

Therapeutics: 1158551
- Radiotherapy: 166557
  - Image-Guided Radiotherapy: 813

Experts

1.	Chi, Alexander: 21 articles (03/2015 - 02/2011)
2.	Nguyen, Nam P: 21 articles (03/2015 - 04/2010)
3.	Vinh-Hung, Vincent: 19 articles (01/2015 - 04/2010)
4.	Jang, Siyoung: 15 articles (03/2015 - 04/2010)
5.	Vock, Jacqueline: 12 articles (03/2015 - 12/2011)
6.	Karlsson, Ulf: 11 articles (03/2015 - 05/2012)
7.	van Herk, Marcel: 10 articles (01/2020 - 01/2005)
8.	Bristow, Robert G: 10 articles (01/2019 - 09/2008)
9.	Yan, Di: 10 articles (04/2018 - 08/2005)
10.	Vos, Paul: 10 articles (03/2015 - 04/2010)

Related Diseases

1.	Neoplasms (Cancer) 03/01/2008 - "The increased utilization of x-ray imaging in image-guided radiotherapy has dramatically improved the radiation treatment and the lives of cancer patients. " 08/12/2022 - "Image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) enables optimal tumor targeting and sparing of organs-at-risk, which ultimately results in improved outcomes for patients. " 11/15/2017 - "Stereotactic ablative radiation therapy (SABR) has improved, with image-guided radiation therapy becoming a curative option in many tumors. " 11/14/2021 - "Image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) has significantly improved the precision in which radiotherapy is delivered in cancer treatment. " 09/01/2013 - "The method's application to Image-guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) requires only a few seconds and yields good results in localizing a tumor under rigid motion in the head and neck and under respiratory deformation in the lung, using one treatment-time imaging 2D projection or a small set thereof."
2.	Prostatic Neoplasms (Prostate Cancer) 09/01/2012 - "Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) are technological developments, which when applied in a model of prostate cancer, led to a significant reduction in the toxicity and digestive and urinary sequelae of 3D conformational radiotherapy. " 09/01/2012 - "Improved clinical outcomes with high-dose image guided radiotherapy compared with non-IGRT for the treatment of clinically localized prostate cancer." 09/01/2021 - "Image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) is central to the safe and effective delivery of ultrahypofractionated (UF) stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for localized prostate cancer. " 10/01/2017 - "In prostate cancer, fiducial marker image-guided radiotherapy (FMIGRT) allows correction of setup errors and interfraction physiological motion resulting in improved accuracy of target and sparing of at risk organs. " 01/01/2017 - "Improved outcomes with dose escalation in localized prostate cancer treated with precision image-guided radiotherapy."
3.	Lung Neoplasms (Lung Cancer) 01/01/2011 - "The image-guided radiotherapy adapted to changes of motion and anatomy has made the radiotherapy more precise and allowed ablative dose delivered to the target using novel treatment approaches such as intensity-modulated radiation therapy, stereotactic body radiation therapy, and proton therapy in lung cancer, techniques used to be considered very sensitive to motion change. " 12/01/2019 - "This study aimed to investigate an improved setup protocol for maintaining patient setup accuracy, with minimal or no use of image-guided radiation therapy in conventional radiotherapy for lung cancer. " 05/01/2016 - "Image guided radiation therapy may result in improved local control in locally advanced lung cancer patients." 12/26/2019 - "This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) image registration used in image-guided radiotherapy, providing reasonable guidance for clinic application of CBCT in lung cancer. " 02/01/2014 - "IntroductionThis study aimed to evaluate the effect of image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) on the margin between the clinical target volume (CTV) and planning target volume (PTV) in lung cancer. "
4.	Head and Neck Neoplasms (Head and Neck Cancer) 01/01/2022 - "Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) is the most effective treatment for head and neck cancer. " 12/01/2016 - "This technique may be effective in reducing such artifacts in patients with head and neck cancer receiving daily image-guided radiotherapy." 04/01/2023 - "This study was done to quantify the translational setup errors with cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) in the image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) treatment of head-and-neck cancer (HNC) patients. " 12/01/2014 - "The purpose of this study was to compare outcomes among patients treated by intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) with daily image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) for head and neck cancer according to the margins used to expand the clinical target volume (CTV) to create a planning target volume (PTV). " 07/01/2014 - "The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of nondaily image-guided radiotherapy (RT) strategies with intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for head and neck cancer. "
5.	Urinary Bladder Neoplasms (Bladder Cancer) 07/01/2020 - "BioXmark® liquid fiducial markers for image-guided radiotherapy in muscle invasive bladder cancer: a safety and performance trial." 01/01/2016 - "The purpose of this study was to assess feasibility, clinical outcomes, and toxicity in patients with bladder cancer treated with adaptive, image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) for bladder preservation as a part of trimodality treatment. " 01/01/2009 - "This has paved the way for further studies combining IMRT with image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) in bladder cancer." 07/01/2023 - "Evaluation of non-vendor magnetic resonance imaging sequences for use in bladder cancer magnetic resonance image guided radiotherapy." 10/01/2019 - "An ultrasound based platform for image-guided radiotherapy in canine bladder cancer patients."

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