Denis Panizza, Medical Physicist at the San Gerardo of Tintori Research Hospital Foundation, shared a post on X about recent paper he and colleagues co-authored:
“How tight can SBRT prostate margins go?
≤8 min → 4–5 mm = safe. 2–3 mm = real-time tracking mandatory
Our analysis on 192 prostate SBRT fractions and 2 motion monitoring systems is finally out.”
Title: Real-time monitoring and appropriate margin selection in linac-based prostate SBRT: Analysis of two different intrafraction motion monitoring systems
Authors: Denis Panizza, Valeria Faccenda, Chiara Ingraito, Chiara Chissotti, Federica Ferrario, Riccardo Ray Colciago, Elena De Ponti, Stefano Arcangeli
Read The Full Article at Medical Physics.
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