Advances in Radiation Oncology, 2022 Purpose Herein we report the clinical and dosimetric experience for patients with metastases treated with palliative simulation-free radiation therapy (SFRT) at a single institution.
J. Schiff +6 more
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Influence of respiratory motion management technique on radiation pneumonitis risk with robotic stereotactic body radiation therapy. [PDF]
, 2018 Purpose/objectivesFor lung stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), real-time tumor tracking (RTT) allows for less radiation to normal lung compared to the internal target volume (ITV) method of respiratory motion management. To quantify the advantage
Bahig +32 more
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Stereotactic MRI-guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy (SMART) for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: A Promising Approach. [PDF]
, 2018 Locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC) is characterized by poor prognosis and low response durability with standard-of-care chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy treatment.
Cao, Minsong +6 more
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Effect of variations in atelectasis on tumor displacement during radiation therapy for locally advanced lung cancer [PDF]
, 2017 Purpose Atelectasis (AT), or collapsed lung, is frequently associated with central lung tumors. We investigated the variation of atelectasis volumes during radiation therapy and analyzed the effect of AT volume changes on the reproducibility of the ...
Hugo, Geoffrey D. +5 more
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Frontiers in Oncology, 2017 The present most common image diagnostic tracer in clinical practice for glioma is 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) for brain tumors diagnosis and prognosis.
Kamalakannan Palanichamy +1 more
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Evaluation of Dose Calculation Algorithms Accuracy for Eclipse, PCRT3D, and Monaco Treatment Planning Systems Using IAEA TPS commissioning tests in a Heterogeneous Phantom [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Medical Physics, 2019 Introduction: The accuracy of dose calculation algorithm (DCA) is highly considered in the radiotherapy sequences. This study aims at assessing the accuracy of five dose calculation algorithms in tissue inhomogeneity corrections, based on the ...
Nasibeh Kavousi +4 more
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Proton Therapy: Ever Shifting Sands and the Opportunities and Obligations Within
Frontiers in Oncology, 2011 Proton therapy is associated with significant benefit in terms of normal tissue sparing and potential radiation dose escalation for many patients with malignant diseases.
Christine E Hill-Kayser +2 more
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Impact of treatment planning target volumen (PTV) size on radiation induced diarrhoea following selenium supplementation in gynecologic radiation oncology - a subgroup analysis of a multicenter, phase III trial [PDF]
, 2013 Background: In a previous analysis (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 70:828-835,2010), we assessed whether an adjuvant supplementation with selenium (Se) improves Se status and reduces the radiation-induced side-effects of patients treated by adjuvant ...
Adamietz, Irenäus A. +14 more
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COMPUTERIZED RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING WITH ULTRASOUND [PDF]
American Journal of Roentgenology, 1974 In an effort to improve the accuracy of radiation therapy planning, a system of computerized radiation treatment planning utilizing ultrasonic laminagraphy as a direct source of anatomic information has been developed.With this unique system the location of deep tumors, normal anatomic structures, internal heterogeneities and patient contour are ...
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Radiation Oncology, 2018 For 2018, the American Cancer Society estimated that there would be approximately 1.7 million new diagnoses of cancer and about 609,640 cancer-related deaths in the United States.
Paul Russell Roberts +5 more
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