Advances in radiotherapy and implications for the next century: a historical perspective

PP Connell, S Hellman - Cancer research, 2009 - AACR
The use of ionizing radiation for the treatment of cancer dates back to the late 19th century,
remarkably soon after Roentgen described X-rays in 1895 and the use of brachytherapy …

Big data analytics for prostate radiotherapy

J Coates, L Souhami, I El Naqa - Frontiers in oncology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Radiation therapy is a first-line treatment option for localized prostate cancer and radiation-
induced normal tissue damage are often the main limiting factor for modern radiotherapy …

Multi-view radiomics and dosiomics analysis with machine learning for predicting acute-phase weight loss in lung cancer patients treated with radiotherapy

SH Lee, P Han, RK Hales, KR Voong… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a multi-view data analysis approach using radiomics and dosiomics (R&D)
texture features for predicting acute-phase weight loss (WL) in lung cancer radiotherapy …

Oxygen-guided radiation therapy

B Epel, MC Maggio, ED Barth, RC Miller… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose It has been known for over 100 years that tumor hypoxia, a near-universal
characteristic of solid tumors, decreases the curative effectiveness of radiation therapy …

Are the results of RTOG 0617 mysterious?

JD Cox - International journal of radiation oncology, biology …, 2012 - redjournal.org
On June 17, 2011, two of the four arms in the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG)
0617 protocol were closed to accrual when a planned interim analysis showed that the …

Electron paramagnetic resonance oxygen images correlate spatially and quantitatively with Oxylite oxygen measurements

M Elas, KH Ahn, A Parasca, ED Barth, D Lee… - Clinical Cancer …, 2006 - AACR
Tumor oxygenation predicts cancer therapy response and malignant phenotype. This has
spawned a number of oxymetries. Comparison of different oxymetries is crucial for the …

[图书][B] Radiation biology for medical physicists

CS Sureka, C Armpilia - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This book is designed to convey as much information as possible in a concise and simple
way to make it suitable for students, researchers and clinical medical physicists. Better …

Planning and delivery of intensity‐modulated radiation therapy

CX Yu, CJ Amies, M Svatos - Medical physics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is an advanced form of external beam radiation
therapy. IMRT offers an additional dimension of freedom as compared with field shaping in …

Analyzing the performance of ArcCHECK diode array detector for VMAT plan

R Thiyagarajan, A Nambiraj, SN Sinha… - Reports of practical …, 2016 - journals.viamedica.pl
Aim The aim of this study is to evaluate performance of ArcCHECK diode array detector for
the volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) patient specific quality assurance (QA). VMAT …

Comparison of organ‐at‐risk sparing and plan robustness for spot‐scanning proton therapy and volumetric modulated arc photon therapy in head‐and‐neck cancer

DLJ Barten, JP Tol, M Dahele, BJ Slotman… - Medical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Proton radiotherapy for head‐and‐neck cancer (HNC) aims to improve organ‐at‐
risk (OAR) sparing over photon radiotherapy. However, it may be less robust for setup and …