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Required transition from research to clinical application: Report on the 4D treatment planning workshops 2014 and 2015

Knopf, AC; Stützer, K; Richter, C; Rucinski, A; da Silva, J; Phillips, J; Engelsman, M; ... McClelland, J; + view all (2016) Required transition from research to clinical application: Report on the 4D treatment planning workshops 2014 and 2015. Physica Medica , 32 (7) pp. 874-882. 10.1016/j.ejmp.2016.05.064. Green open access

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Abstract

Since 2009, a 4D treatment planning workshop has taken place annually, gathering researchers working on the treatment of moving targets, mainly with scanned ion beams. Topics discussed during the workshops range from problems of time resolved imaging, the challenges of motion modelling, the implementation of 4D capabilities for treatment planning, up to different aspects related to 4D dosimetry and treatment verification. This report gives an overview on topics discussed at the 4D workshops in 2014 and 2015. It summarizes recent findings, developments and challenges in the field and discusses the relevant literature of the recent years. The report is structured in three parts pointing out developments in the context of understanding moving geometries, of treating moving targets and of 4D quality assurance (QA) and 4D dosimetry. The community represented at the 4D workshops agrees that research in the context of treating moving targets with scanned ion beams faces a crucial phase of clinical translation. In the coming years it will be important to define standards for motion monitoring, to establish 4D treatment planning guidelines and to develop 4D QA tools. These basic requirements for the clinical application of scanned ion beams to moving targets could e.g. be determined by a dedicated ESTRO task group. Besides reviewing recent research results and pointing out urgent needs when treating moving targets with scanned ion beams, the report also gives an outlook on the upcoming 4D workshop organized at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) in the Netherlands at the end of 2016.

Type: Article
Title: Required transition from research to clinical application: Report on the 4D treatment planning workshops 2014 and 2015
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2016.05.064
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmp.2016.05.064
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2016 Associazione Italiana di Fisica Medica. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Keywords: 4D treatment planning; Motion mitigation; Motion imaging; Motion modelling
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1502573
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