Toward the World's First Tumor-Following Radiation Therapy Technique: Development of High-Accuracy Tumor Tracking System
| Project/Area Number |
15K20852
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Medical Physics and Radiological Technology
Life / Health / Medical informatics
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Keywords | 画像誘導放射線治療 / マーカレス追尾 / MVX線画像 / Radiation Therapy / Markerless Tracking / Radiographic Imaging / Radiation therapy / Radiographic imaging / Tumor tracking |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this research is to develop a radiographic image tracking system to track respiration-induced tumor motion in real-time for adaptive tumor following radiation therapy. The tracking system will be able to provide conformable tumor motion information and allows the treatment device to accurately deliver high-dose conformable radiation to the moving target during the treatment.
In this research project, a kernel-based algorithm and a level set method-based method have been developed for tracking the tumor’s position and its boundary in kilo-voltage (kV) images and megavoltage (MV) images. The experimental results performed on the phantom and clinical data sets demonstrated the effectiveness of the systems for clinical application.
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