Surface-guided analysis of breast shape changes during postoperative radiotherapy by using a functional map framework.

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Date publication

juillet 2026

Journal

Medical physics

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr NOEL Georges , Pr DE MATHELIN Michel , Dr MEYER Philippe

Tous les auteurs :
Galmiche P, Seo H, Pin Y, Meyer P, Noël G, De Mathelin M

Lien Pubmed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/42376805

Résumé

While positioning errors during radiotherapy are increasingly well-characterized and accounted for in the Planning Target Volume (PTV), little is known about the shape and volume changes of the breast in the course of radiotherapy. Yet they represent an unknown factor that may impact treatment effectiveness, highlighting the need to analyze inter-fractional breast deformations to enable promising approaches such as patient-specific adaptive irradiation planning.