The traditional treatment planning process takes days to create an optimized radiation therapy delivery plan, but new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are helping speed this process. In some cases autonomous AI-generated plans can be generated in a couple minutes.
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This page includes news coverage of theAmerican Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)annual meeting and related medical physics content. The AAPM is a scientific and professional organization, founded in 1958, with more than 8,000 scientists whose clinical practice is dedicated to ensuring accuracy, safety and quality in the use of radiation in medical procedures, including医学成像andradiation therapy.
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Experts in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology, from many of the world’s leading radiology, medical physics and imaging informatics groups, recently published an aspirational statement to guide the development of AI in radiology. The multi-society statement focuses on three…
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There were several trends and new technologies in radiation oncology discussed at theAmerican Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)2019 meeting in July.
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A new area forproton therapyin treatment of eye cancer, because of the ability to control the tissue penetration and eliminate full beam lines through a multitude of critical structures in the head.
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This is an example of the Mirada DLCExpert deep learning software that automatically identifies organs, segments and auto-contours them as the first step in creating radiation oncologytreatment plans. This…
News|Radiation Therapy
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News|Radiation Therapy
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July 14, 2022
News|Radiation Therapy
July 14, 2022 — Users of Elekta Unity, the world’s first and only high-field magnetic resonance linear accelerator MR ...
July 14, 2022
News|Radiology Imaging
June 21, 2022 — After less than two years of data collection and processing, the Radiological Society of North America ...
June 21, 2022
Feature|Radiation Dose Management| By Melinda Taschetta-Millane
Dose tracking software allows hospitals and imaging centers to track levels of radiation used by exam type protocol. It ...
March 22, 2022
Feature|Radiation Therapy| By Dave Fornell
To maintain safety in radiation therapy (RT), every machine performance and patient delivery measurement must be as ...
October 05, 2021
2021年9月2日-在最近7月举行的2021年AAPM会议上，太阳核公司展示了其全面的……
September 02, 2021
August 17, 2021 — Expert medical organizations caution that evidence-based ordering of medically necessary imaging exams ...
August 17, 2021
News|Radiation Oncology
July 15, 2021 — Just as helicopter traffic reporters use their "bird's eye view" to route drivers around roadblocks ...
July 15, 2021
June 23, 2021 — The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) is inviting proposals from researchers for funding ...
June 23, 2021
Feature|Radiation Dose Management| By Dave Fornell
More than a decade ago, there was an alarming, rapid rise in ionizing radiation exposure in the U.S. population that was ...
March 04, 2021
News|Contrast Media
August 14, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of the Gadavist (gadobutrol) ...
August 14, 2020
News|Radiation Therapy
August 6, 2020 — Global radiotherapy market revenue is set to expand from $7,222.4 million in 2019 to $17,194.4 million ...
August 06, 2020
August 5, 2020 — The nation’s largest medical imaging associations are working together to develop the new Medical ...
August 05, 2020
Feature|Treatment Planning| By Melinda Taschetta-Millane
At the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) 2019 meeting, new artificial intelligence (AI) software to ...
July 08, 2020
Feature|Treatment Planning| Dave Fornell, Editor
The traditional treatment planning process takes days to create an optimized radiation therapy delivery plan, but new ...
April 03, 2020
Feature|Radiation Dose Management| By Melinda Taschetta-Millane
Rising concerns over radiation overexposure teamed with a growing focus on improving the quality of patient care are two ...
April 02, 2020
October 22, 2019 – Experts in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology, from many of the world’s leading ...
October 22, 2019
Gallery|AAPM| Dave Fornell, Editor
This is a photo essay of the new radiation oncology and medical physics technologies on the expo floor and discussed in ...
August 22, 2019