December 2022

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CONTENTS

Editorial Board

BASICS OF PHOTON COUNTING CT

• Marc Kachelriess

A JOINT INTERNATIONAL EFFORT: REPORT ON TG359

• Dimitris Mihailidis

OUT-OF-FIELD DOSES AND ASSOCIATED RISK OF CANCER IN RADIOTHERAPY

• Michalis Mazonakis

LOCAL CLINICAL DRLS: A TEN STEPS METHODOLOGY

• Hugues Brat

HOW CAN AI IMPROVE RADIATION PROTECTION IN MEDICAL IMAGING?

• Habib Zaidi

COMMISSIONING AND PLANNING OF TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS FOR SELECTIVE INTERNAL RADIATION THERAPY

• Lidia Strigari

DETECTORS FOR NEXT GENERATION PET AND SPECT

• Stefaan Vandenberghe

CURRENT STATUS OF DOSIMETRY IN FLASH RADIOTHERAPY: SUITABLE DOSIMETERS TO USE IN UHDR IRRADIATIONS

• Anna Subiel

FOETAL DOSE ESTIMATION FROM ADMINISTRATION OF RADIONUCLIDES. EXPOSURE LEVELS. DOSIMETRY AND IMPLICATION

• Sigrid Leide-Svegborn

DATA SCIENCE IN ONCOLOGY – TOWARDS A LEARNING HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

• Jennifer Dhont,
• Nick Reynaert

OPEN SOURCE SCRIPTING IN MODERN TPS

• Jakob Ödén

MONTE CARLO FOR RADIATION THERAPY

• Michael Fix

A SUGGESTED RATIONAL SCHEME FOR ROLES FOR THE DIFFERENT PROFESSIONS IN MEDICAL RADIATION PROTECTION

• Carmel J. Caruana

ACCEPTANCE AND QUALITY CONTROL (QC) OF PHOTON COUNTING COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (PCCT) SYSTEMS

• Marcel van Straten

THE MAYO CLINIC EXPERIENCE TREATING PATIENTS WITH SPATIALLY FRACTIONATED RADIATION THERAPY

• Mike Grams

OUT-OF-FIELD DOSES IN PHOTON AND PROTON THERAPY IN CASE OF PAEDIATRIC PATIENTS – LESSONS LEARNT FROM EURADOS INTERCOMPARISONS

• Zeljka Knezevic
• on behalf of EURADOS WG9 Liliana Stolarczyk

CONSENSUS PROCESS ON THE PRE-TRIAL RTQA PROCEDURES

• Enrico Clementel

HOW TO APPROPRIATELY DETERMINE NON-TARGET DOSES IN RADIOTHERAPY?

• Liliana Stolarczyk

QUALITY CONTROL TESTING IN RADIOLOGY: LATEST UPDATES

• Richard Elek,
• Prodromos Kaplanis,
• Vesna Gershan,
• Virginia Tsapaki

QUALITY ASSURANCE IN QMRI

• Xavier Golay

FROM CONVENTIONAL TO AUTOMATED QC IN RADIOLOGY IMAGING

• Virginia Tsapaki

PREPARATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A PROTON THERAPY SYSTEM IN SUPPORT OF FIRST IN-HUMAN FLASH CLINICAL TRIAL

• Anthony Mascia

APPLICATION AND COMPARISON OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS TO PREDICT VMAT GAMMA PASSING RATES

• Ms Laura Medina-Bazaco,
• Mr Carlos Fernández-Leira,
• Olivia Jordi-Ollero,
• ...
• Roberto Martín-Vaello,
• Sergio Llácer,
• Cristina Picón

BACKSIDE IRRADIATION OF UV-A TO GAFCHROMIC FILMS FOR CORRECTING NON-UNIFORMITY ERROR

• Toshizo Katsuda,
• Rumi Gotanda,
• Tatsuhiro Gotanda,
• Tadao Kuwano,
• Kouichi Yabunaka

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS OF STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY INCREASES WITH FRACTIONATION IN HYPOXIC TUMORS

• Mr Filippo Schiavo,
• Emely Kjellsson Lindblom,
• Pierre Barsoum,
• Alexandru Dasu,
• Iuliana Toma-Dasu

DOSE OPTIMIZATION IN PERCUTANEUS ENDOVASCULAR EMBOLIZATION OF MALE VARICOCELE

• Valentina Ravaglia,
• Carlo Cecchelli,
• Simona Farnedi,
• ...
• Nicola Pannacci,
• Nicoletta Scrittori,
• Giovanna Venturi

IMPACT OF DAILY ANATOMICAL CHANGES AND INTRAFRACTION MOTION ON DOSE DISTRIBUTION DURING ULTRA-HYPOFRACTIONATED PROSTATE CANCER RADIOTHERAPY

• Francesca di Franco,
• PierreMarie Pialat,
• Thomas Baudier,
• Pascal Pommier,
• David Sarrut,
• Marie Claude Biston

ASSESSMENT OF TLD RING DOSIMETER HP(0.07) ACCURACY FOR A RANGE OF EMERGING THERAPEUTIC AND PET RADIONUCLIDES - EGSNRC MONTE CARLO SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION

• Mr. Aidan Burns,
• Mr. Bill Kamtchou,
• Sean Cournane,
• Luis León Vintró,
• Ann McCann

DOSIMETRIC STUDY IN PAEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASES EXPOSED TO X-RAYS AND SUBMITTED TO DIAGNOSTIC AND INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES

• Ms Raquel Costa,
• Pedro Teles,
• Teresa Pinheiro,
• ...
• Ms Teresa Loupa,
• Fátima Pinto,
• Octávia Monteiro Gil

PATTERN-OF-PRACTISE, MULTI-CENTRE BENCHMARKS AND CREDENTIALING WORKFLOW FOR CONTOURING, TREATMENT PLANNING AND DELIVERY OF STEREOTACTIC ARRHYTHMIA RADIOABLATION FROM THE STOPSTORM.EU CONSORTIUM

• Melanie Grehn,
• Brian V. Balgobind,
• Valeria Trojani,
• ...
• Joost Verhoeff,
• Mauro Iori,
• Oliver Blanck

IMPLEMENTATION AND DOSIMETRY OF AN OPTIMISED SPATIALLY FRACTIONATED RADIATION THERAPY TECHNIQUE AT A CLINICAL MEDICAL ACCELERATOR

• Manuel Sanchez-Garcia,
• Victor Luna-Vega,
• Immaculada Martínez-Rovira,
• ...
• Tim Schneider,
• Miguel Pombar Camean,
• Yolanda Prezado

PROTON MINIBEAM RADIATION THERAPY FOR TREATING BRAIN METASTASES: A TREATMENT PLAN EVALUATION

• Mr Ramon Ortiz,
• Ludovic De Marzi,
• Yolanda Prezado

LUNG NODULE VOLUMETRY AND MORPHOLOGY IN CHEST CT: EFFECT OF DEEP LEARNING VERSUS ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION AT DIFFERENT DOSE LEVELS

• Caro Franck,
• Federica Zanca,
• Ken Carpentier,
• ...
• Maarten Spinhoven,
• Astrid Van Hoyweghen,
• Annemiek Snoeckx

DETERMINATION OF FUNCTIONAL PERFUSED LUNG SUBVOLUMES FROM DUAL-ENERGY CT AND PET IMAGING FOR FUNCTIONAL LUNG AVOIDANCE RADIOTHERAPY

• Mathieu Gaudreault,
• James Korte,
• Nicholas Bucknell,
• ...
• Tomas Kron,
• Shankar Siva,
• Nicholas Hardcastle

ULTIMATE VALIDATION OF THE STATISTICAL METHOD FOR LOW CONTRAST DETECTABILITY (SM) IN ANGIOGRAPHY FOR STATIONARY AND MOVING DETAILS: COMPARISON WITH HUMAN OBSERVER TASKS

• Nicoletta Paruccini,
• Raffale Villa,
• Chira Ingraito,
• Elena De Ponti

QUALITY CONTROL IN ULTRASONOGRAPHY

• Mrs Virginia Álvarez Sánchez,
• Roberto Sánchez Casanueva,
• José Miguel Fernández Soto

GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS BASED GROUND GLASS OPACITIES (GGOS) SYNTHETIC

• Zhixiang Wang,
• Zhen Zhang,
• Lizza Hendriks,
• ...
• Leonard Wee,
• Andre Dekker,
• Alberto Traverso

A NOVEL AND SUCCESSFUL APPROACH TO ATTRACTING STUDENTS TO MEDICAL PHYSICS AND RADIATION PROTECTION UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES

• Carmel J. Caruana,
• Mr Eric Pace

CONSIDERATIONS ON A CASUAL WORKFORCE FOR RADIATION ONCOLOGY MEDICAL PHYSICS

• Tomas Kron,
• Adam Yeo,
• Ajit Mullen,
• Kosta Gerontzos,
• Chris Fox

CLINICAL FEASIBILITY OF MR-ONLY-BASED SYNTHETIC CT GENERATION FOR ONLINE ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY USING A HYBRID MR-LINAC

• Katri Nousiainen,
• Grichar Valdes Santurio,
• Nils Lundahl,
• Rickard Cronholm,
• Carl Siversson,
• Jens M Edmund

VISUAL PERCEPTION MODEL OBSERVER METHODS FOR LOW CONTRAST DETECTABILITY IN DIGITAL ANGIOGRAPHY

• Chiara Ingraito,
• Raffaele Villa,
• Nicoletta Paruccini,
• Angelo Nucciotti,
• Elena De Ponti

INTEGRITY OF PERSONAL RADIATION PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PRPE): A 4-YEAR LONGITUDINAL FOLLOW-UP STUDY

• Pieter-Jan Kellens,
• An De Hauwere,
• Tim Gossye,
• ...
• Luc Strubbe,
• Jan De Pooter,
• Klaus Bacher

DESIGN AND COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ANALYSIS OF A NOVEL ANCHORING SYSTEM IN THE INFERIOR VENA CAVA FOR CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE MEASUREMENT – A NEW APPROACH TO HEART FAILURE MONITORING

• Miss Tejaswini Manavi,
• Helen O’Grady,
• Jerson Martina,
• ...
• Miss Masooma Ijaz,
• Haroon Zafar,
• Faisal Sharif

DNA DAMAGE AFTER INTERNAL EX VIVO IRRADIATION OF BLOOD WITH α-PARTICLES AS A FUNCTION OF TIME AND ABSORBED DOSE

• Lukas Göring,
• Harry Scherthan,
• Sarah Schumann,
• ...
• Matthias Port,
• Michael Lassmann,
• Uta Eberlein

THE USE OF DOSE RATE DEPENDENCIES AS A THEORETICAL DISCRIMINATION CRITERIA IN RADIOBIOLOGICAL MODELS

• Sergio Mingo Barba,
• Rudolf Marcel Füchslin,
• Marco Lattuada,
• Alke Fink,
• Stephan Scheidegger

LUNG SHUNT FRACTION ESTIMATION FOR Y-90 BOTH AT THERAPEUTIC AND DIAGNOSTIC ACTIVITY LEVELS: A PHANTOM STUDY

• Mrs. Anna Budzyńska,
• Mrs. Agata Kubik,
• Mr. Krzysztof Kacperski,
• ...
• Mr. Marcin Konior,
• Mr. Mirosław Dziuk,
• Mr. Edward Iller

DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS FOR DOSIMETRY MEASUREMENTS IN A CLINICAL C-ARM CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CBCT) IMAGING SYSTEM

• Nina McWilliams,
• Seán Cournane,
• Jackie McCavana,
• Julie Lucey,
• Luis Leon Vintro