Yun Ming Wong, Calvin Wei Yang Koh, Kah Seng Lew, Clifford Ghee Ann Chua, Ping Lin Yeap, Wibawa Andrew, Master Zubin, Sharon Shuxian Poh, Wen Siang Lew, James Cheow Lei Lee, Sung Yong Park, Hong Qi Tan
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: High-density dental fillings pose a non-negligible impact on head and neck cancer treatment. For proton therapy, stopping power ratio (SPR) prediction will be significantly impaired by the associated image artifacts. Dose perturbation is also inevitable, compromising the treatment plan quality. While plenty of work has been done on metal or amalgam fillings, none has touched on composite resin (CR) and glass ionomer cement (GIC) which have seen an increasing usage...
January 2024: Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology