Nadine Linthout

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Dr. Nadine Linthout is a leading medical physicist whose research has fundamentally advanced the precision and safety of stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy. Her work centers on the critical challenge of managing patient and tumor motion, with major contributions to the development and validation of real-time tracking systems and high-accuracy patient positioning. Dr. Linthout’s seminal 2011 paper on a novel gimbals-based tumor tracking system (164 citations) established a new benchmark for geometric accuracy in treating moving targets. She further demonstrated the clinical viability of frameless radiosurgery through her influential validation of the Novalis ExacTrac 6DOF system (132 citations), a study that helped shift practice away from invasive frames. Her research also provided foundational insights into minimizing treatment margins by quantifying secondary patient motion from automated couch corrections (36 citations) and by developing optimal control strategies for setup and internal margins using stereoscopic imaging (34 citations). Through these rigorous, high-impact studies, Dr. Linthout has been instrumental in enabling more precise, non-invasive radiation delivery, directly improving treatment outcomes for patients with both intracranial and extracranial tumors.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Geometric accuracy of a novel gimbals based radiation therapy tumor tracking system

   164 citations · 2011
2. 2
   Setup Accuracy of the Novalis ExacTrac 6DOF System for Frameless Radiosurgery

   132 citations · 2011
3. 3
   Assessment of secondary patient motion induced by automated couch movement during on-line 6 dimensional repositioning in prostate cancer treatment

   36 citations · 2007
4. 4
   Optimal control of set-up margins and internal margins for intra- and extracranial radiotherapy using stereoscopic kilovoltage imaging

   34 citations · 2006

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