Reference list for upright RT

Overview

Hegarty, Sarah, et al. Please Place Your Seat in the Full Upright Position: A Technical Framework for Landing Upright Radiation Therapy in the 21st Century. Frontiers in Oncology 12 (2022): 821887.

Schreuder, Niek, Xuanfeng Ding, and Zuofeng Li. Fixed beamlines can replace gantries for particle therapy. Medical physics 49.4 (2022): 2097-2100.

Mazal, Alejandro, et al. Biological and Mechanical Synergies to Deal With Proton Therapy Pitfalls: Minibeams, FLASH, Arcs, and Gantryless Rooms. Frontiers in Oncology  (2021) Jan 21:10:613669

Rahim, Sulman, et al. Upright radiation therapy—A historical reflection and opportunities for future applications. Frontiers in Oncology 10 (2020): 213.

Setup

Boisbouvier S & Underwood T et al. Upright patient positioning for gantry-free breast radiotherapy: feasibility tests using a robotic chair and specialised bras. Frontiers in Oncology 13 (2023):1250678. 

Volz, Lennart, et al. Considerations for upright particle therapy patient positioning and associated image guidance.  Frontiers in Oncology 12 (2022): 930850. 

Boisbouvier, S., et al. Upright patient positioning for pelvic radiotherapy treatments. Technical Innovations & Patient Support in Radiation Oncology 24 (2022): 124-130. 

Sun, Jiayao, et al. Clinical implementation of a 6D treatment chair for fixed ion beam lines. Frontiers in Oncology 11 (2021): 694749. 

Sheng, Yinxiangzi, et al. Performance of a 6D treatment chair for patient positioning in an upright posture for fixed ion beam lines. Frontiers in oncology 10 (2020): 122. 

Zhang, Xiang, et al. Development of an isocentric rotating chair positioner to treat patients of head and neck cancer at upright seated position with multiple nonplanar fields in a fixed carbon‐ion beamline. Medical Physics 47.6 (2020): 2450-2460. 

Liu, Paul Zhi Yuan, et al. Development and commissioning of a full‐size prototype fixed‐beam radiotherapy system with horizontal patient rotation. Medical physics 46.3 (2019): 1331-1340. 

Whelan, Brendan, et al. Patient reported outcomes of slow, single arc rotation: Do we need rotating gantries? Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology 62.4 (2018): 553-561. 

McCarroll, Rachel E., et al. Reproducibility of patient setup in the seated treatment position: A novel treatment chair design. Journal of applied clinical medical physics 18.1 (2017): 223-229. 

Duisters, Cindy, et al. Palliative chest irradiation in sitting position in patients with bulky advanced lung cancer. Radiotherapy and oncology 79.3 (2006): 285-287. 

Miller, R. W., et al. An isocentric chair for the simulation and treatment of radiation therapy patients. International Journal of Radiation Oncology* Biology* Physics 21.2 (1991): 469-473. 

Verhey, Lynn J., et al. Precise positioning of patients for radiation therapy. International Journal of Radiation Oncology* Biology* Physics 8.2 (1982): 289-294. 

Anatomy and treatment planning

Marano, Joseph, et al. Relative thoracic changes from supine to upright patient position: A proton collaborative group study.  Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics (2023): e14129 

Schreuder, Andries, et al. Anatomical changes in the male pelvis between the supine and upright positions—A feasibility study for prostate treatments in the upright position.  Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics (2023): e14099. 

Yamada, Yoshitake, et al. Comparison of inspiratory and expiratory lung and lobe volumes among supine, standing, and sitting positions using conventional and upright CT. Scientific reports 10.1 (2020): 16203. 

Maes, Dominic, et al. Validation and practical implementation of seated position radiotherapy in a commercial TPS for proton therapy. Physica Medica 80 (2020): 175-185. 

Gross, J., et al. Volumetric and motion differences of organs-at-risk between seated and supine patient positioning for the delivery of thoracic radiation therapy. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 102.3 (2018): e554. 

Takazakura, Ryutaro, et al. Diaphragmatic motion in the sitting and supine positions: healthy subject study using a vertically open magnetic resonance system.  Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: An Official Journal of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 19.5 (2004): 605-609. 

Marcus, Karen Chayt, et al. Mantle irradiation in the upright position: a technique to reduce the volume of lung irradiated in patients with bulky mediastinal Hodgkin's disease. International Journal of Radiation Oncology* Biology* Physics 23.2 (1992): 443-447. 

Imaging

Schreuder, Andries Niek, et al. The use of image synthesis techniques in target and ROI delineation in the upright position.  Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics (2023): e14079 

Buckley, Jarryd G., et al. Measurements of human tolerance to horizontal rotation within an MRI scanner: Towards gantry-free radiation therapy. Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology 65.1 (2021): 112-119. 

Yang, Jinzhong, et al. Advantages of simulating thoracic cancer patients in an upright position. Practical radiation oncology 4.1 (2014): e53-e58.  

Fave, Xenia, et al. Upright cone beam CT imaging using the onboard imager.  Medical physics 41.6 Part1 (2014): 061906. 

Shah, Anand P., et al. Upright 3D treatment planning using a vertical CT. Medical Dosimetry 34.1 (2009): 82-86. 

Chair design

Zhang, Yongde, et al. Design analysis and experimental study of robotic chair for proton heavy ion radiotherapy.  Applied Bionics and Biomechanics 2019 (2019). 

Karzmark, C. J., et al. A versatile radiotherapy treatment chair. The British Journal of Radiology 53.636 (1980): 1190-1194. 

Watson, G. A., E. Shuttleworth, and T. J. Deeley. A radiotherapy treatment chair.  The British journal of radiology 44.520 (1971): 317-318. 

Boag, J. W., and H. J. Hodt. Adjustable chair for radiotherapy of head and neck cancer.  The British journal of radiology 44.520 (1971): 316-317.  

Wiernik, George. A new radiotherapy treatment chair.  The British journal of radiology 34.406 (1961): 676-678. 

Economic

Yan, Susu, et al. Global democratisation of proton radiotherapy. The Lancet Oncology 24.6 (2023): e245-e254. 

Mackie, Thomas Rockwell, et al. Is upright radiotherapy medically and financially better? AIP Conference Proceedings. Vol. 2348. No. 1. AIP Publishing, 2021 

McCarroll, Rachel. Equipment to address infrastructure and human resource challlenges for radiotherapy in low-resource settings. PhD dissertation (2018). 

Miscellaneous

Alonso, J. R., J. Howard, and T. Criswell. The Bevalac radiotherapy facility. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 26.3 (1979): 3074-3076.