Quantitative evaluation of radiotherapy accuracy in head and neck cancer: correcting cbct image distortions for improved tumour targeting and dose assessment

Reda Čerapaitė-Trušinskienė; Diana Meilutytė-Lukauskienė; Greta Karpavičienė; Monika Jonušaitė; Robertas Petrolis

doi:10.1007/s13246-026-01726-2

Quantitative evaluation of radiotherapy accuracy in head and neck cancer: correcting cbct image distortions for improved tumour targeting and dose assessment

Phys Eng Sci Med. 2026 Mar 11. doi: 10.1007/s13246-026-01726-2. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Reda Čerapaitė-Trušinskienė^{1

2}, Diana Meilutytė-Lukauskienė^{3

4}, Greta Karpavičienė^{1

2}, Monika Jonušaitė², Robertas Petrolis^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Mathematics and Biophysics, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania.
² Radiotherapy Department of Hospital of Lithuanian, University of Health Sciences Kaunas Clinics Affiliate Hospital of Oncology, Kaunas, Lithuania.
³ Department of Physics, Mathematics and Biophysics, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania. diana.meilutyte-lukauskiene@lsmu.lt.
⁴ Lithuanian Energy Institute, Kaunas, Lithuania. diana.meilutyte-lukauskiene@lsmu.lt.
⁵ Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Neuroscience Institute, Kaunas, Lithuania.

PMID: 41811597
DOI: 10.1007/s13246-026-01726-2

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Keywords: Adaptive radiotherapy (ART); Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT); Dose recalculation; Head and neck cancer; Image registration; Spatial distortion.