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Image-guidance is now commonly utilised for patient positioning and as such, there are vast archives of Image-Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT) images, with data captured at many time points throughout patients' treatment schedules. In this thesis image-guidance data has been incorpora…

This research is focused on the development of a novel miniaturized wireless dosimeter for cancer patient radiotherapy. During radiotherapy treatment, cancerous region of the body are exposed to high energy radiation. The knowledge of the exact amount of radiation penetrating th…

Purpose: To develop a phase-space based, high definition multi leaf collimator (HD MLC) model TrueBeam accelerator for use in both Computed Tomography (CT) and Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT)-based VMAT Monte Carlo (MC) dose calculations. In addition, to develop a method us…

The expectation for continual improvements in the treatment of cancer has brought quality assurance in radiotherapy under scrutiny in recent years. After a cancer diagnosis a custom treatment plan is devised to meet the particular needs of the patient's condition based on their …