Motion monitoring during prostate radiation therapy treatment: clinical considerations, and patient preferences and perspectives

Amy Brown investigated motion monitoring in radiation therapy, a primary treatment for prostrate cancer. She investigated clinical and patient-reported outcomes with reduced margins afforded by motion monitoring; patient perceptions and preferences for motion monitoring, and identified future preference research areas. This research has led to practice change at Townsville Cancer Centre

Low-cost autonomous 3-D monitoring systems for hydraulic engineering environments and applications with limited accuracy requirements

The details of developing autonomous 3-D motion monitoring systems based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) motion sensors for hydraulic environments are discussed. Possible areas of application, are river bed sediment transport monitoring and monitoring the agitation and other physical parameters inside milk vats with a mechanized agitator. Simplified calculations of inertial navigation systems (INSs) such as Euler angle method, MATLAB programs for further processing, power management systems for autonomous operation including the possibility of inductive power transfer (IPT) and use of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology are discussed. Experimental results for proof of concept systems are highlighted

Motion Monitoring System Based on IoT

Every object is always moving, and movement of an object can occur at any time. The value of the motion which produced from an object can be very small to very large, and the impact of the movement can be at risk until very risky. For this reason, the movement of objects at risk must be observed whenever changes and observations for data retrieval can be done remotely. The purpose of this research to design an Internet of Things (IoT) devices that can observe and detect changes in the motion of an object.  The device is designed to be small, around 44 x 48 millimeters with very low power consumption. The design phase begins with recording motion data using the MPU6050 accelerometer sensor as a motion detector, arduino nano as a control device, WiFi ESP8266 as a communication medium for sending data from a receiver apllication motion data with UDP protocol. The test results show that this device is very sensitive to detect changes in the motion and angle of X, Y and Z of an object

Smart Fabric sensors for foot motion monitoring

Smart Fabrics or fabrics that have the characteristics of sensors are a wide and emerging field of study. This thesis summarizes an investigation into the development of fabric sensors for use in sensorized socks that can be used to gather real time information about the foot such as gait features. Conventional technologies usually provide 2D information about the foot. Sensorized socks are able to provide angular data in which foot angles are correlated to the output from the sensor enabling 3D monitoring of foot position. Current angle detection mechanisms are mainly heavy and cumbersome; the sensorized socks are not only portable but also non-invasive to the subject who wears them. The incorporation of wireless features into the sensorized socks enabled a remote monitoring of the foot

Real-time intrafraction motion monitoring in external beam radiotherapy

© 2019 Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. Radiotherapy (RT) aims to deliver a spatially conformal dose of radiation to tumours while maximizing the dose sparing to healthy tissues. However, the internal patient anatomy is constantly moving due to respiratory, cardiac, gastrointestinal and urinary activity. The long term goal of the RT community to 'see what we treat, as we treat' and to act on this information instantaneously has resulted in rapid technological innovation. Specialized treatment machines, such as robotic or gimbal-steered linear accelerators (linac) with in-room imaging suites, have been developed specifically for real-time treatment adaptation. Additional equipment, such as stereoscopic kilovoltage (kV) imaging, ultrasound transducers and electromagnetic transponders, has been developed for intrafraction motion monitoring on conventional linacs. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been integrated with cobalt treatment units and more recently with linacs. In addition to hardware innovation, software development has played a substantial role in the development of motion monitoring methods based on respiratory motion surrogates and planar kV or Megavoltage (MV) imaging that is available on standard equipped linacs. In this paper, we review and compare the different intrafraction motion monitoring methods proposed in the literature and demonstrated in real-time on clinical data as well as their possible future developments. We then discuss general considerations on validation and quality assurance for clinical implementation. Besides photon RT, particle therapy is increasingly used to treat moving targets. However, transferring motion monitoring technologies from linacs to particle beam lines presents substantial challenges. Lessons learned from the implementation of real-time intrafraction monitoring for photon RT will be used as a basis to discuss the implementation of these methods for particle RT

Flexible Graphene-on-PDMS Sensor for Human Motion Monitoring Applications

In this work, a 4-step method of developing flexible, stretchable, and thin graphene-on-polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) piezoresistive strain sensors is presented. The proposed sensor utilizes the piezoresistive property observed in a dense graphene-nanoflakes percolation network sandwiched between two flexible PDMS layers for strain sensing applications. A gait monitoring system comprising of two identical sensors integrated on the knee region of a sports leggings is developed and demonstrated for real-time human motion monitorin

Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy: Prostate Cancer

Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy: Prostate Cancer Monica Mahon Dr. Elaine Halesey, Ed.D., R.T.(R)(QM) Abstract Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is a special type of radiation therapy that uses very high precise radiation to treat cancerous cells and the treatments are only a total of about five fractions. Prostate cancer is very common in men around the age of 66 and is treated with radiation therapy. Prostate cancer’s high sensitivity to radiation, the use of continuous motion monitoring, and the time efficiency of SBRT are reasons why it should be used to treat prostate cancer. By using continuous motion monitoring along with the SBRT treatment, it allows for very precise treatment. This research discusses the treatment planning, average dose, and procedural set up for SBRT when treating prostate cancer. Along with the benefits of SBRT, previous studies were analyzed and concluded SBRT is a safe and efficient way to treat low-risk, intermediate risk, and lymph node positive prostate cancer.https://digitalcommons.misericordia.edu/research_posters2021/1080/thumbnail.jp

Technical Note: 4D cone-beam CT reconstruction from sparse-view CBCT data for daily motion assessment in pencil beam scanned proton therapy (PBS-PT)

Purpose: The number of pencil beam scanned proton therapy (PBS-PT) facilities equipped with cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) imaging treating thoracic indications is constantly rising. To enable daily internal motion monitoring during PBS-PT treatments of thoracic tumors, we assess the performance of Motion-Aware RecOnstructiOn method using Spatial and Temporal Regularization (MA-ROOSTER) four-dimensional CBCT (4DCBCT) reconstruction for sparse-view CBCT data and a realistic data set of patients treated with proton therapy. Methods: Daily CBCT projection data for nine non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients and one SCLC patient were acquired at a proton gantry system (IBA Proteus® One). Four-dimensional CBCT images were reconstructed applying the MA-ROOSTER and the conventional phase-correlated Feldkamp-Davis-Kress (PC-FDK) method. Image quality was assessed by visual inspection, contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and the structural similarity index measure (SSIM). Furthermore, gross tumor volume (GTV) centroid motion amplitudes were evaluated. Results: Image quality for the 4DCBCT reconstructions using MA-ROOSTER was superior to the PC-FDK reconstructions and close to FDK images (median CNR: 1.23 [PC-FDK], 1.98 [MA-ROOSTER], and 1.98 [FDK]; median SNR: 2.56 [PC-FDK], 4.76 [MA-ROOSTER], and 5.02 [FDK]; median SSIM: 0.18 [PC-FDK vs FDK], 0.31 [MA-ROOSTER vs FDK]). The improved image quality of MA-ROOSTER facilitated GTV contour warping and realistic motion monitoring for most of the reconstructions. Conclusion: MA-ROOSTER based 4DCBCTs performed well in terms of image quality and appear to be promising for daily internal motion monitoring in PBS-PT treatments of (N)SCLC patients