Issue 1/2016
Content (160 Articles)
Optimal number of atlases and label fusion for automatic multi-atlas-based brachial plexus contouring in radiotherapy treatment planning
Joris Van de Velde, Johan Wouters, Tom Vercauteren, Werner De Gersem, Eric Achten, Wilfried De Neve, Tom Van Hoof
Twin machines validation for VMAT treatments using electronic portal-imaging device: a multicenter study
P. Fenoglietto, M. Khodri, D. Nguyen, F. Josserand-Pietri, N. Aillères
Patient outcomes of monotherapy with hypofractionated three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy for stage T2 or T3 non-small cell lung cancer: a retrospective study
Masakuni Sakaguchi, Toshiya Maebayashi, Takuya Aizawa, Naoya Ishibashi, Shoko Fukushima, Osamu Abe, Tsutomu Saito
Efficacy and feasibility of ambulatory treatment-based monthly nedaplatin plus S-1 in definitive or salvage concurrent chemoradiotherapy for early, advanced, and relapsed esophageal cancer
Hideomi Yamashita, Akihiro Haga, Ryousuke Takenaka, Tomoki Kiritoshi, Kae Okuma, Kuni Ohtomo, Keiichi Nakagawa
Clinical outcome of stereotactic body radiotherapy for primary and oligometastatic lung tumors: a single institutional study with almost uniform dose with different five treatment schedules
Masahiko Aoki, Yoshiomi Hatayama, Hideo Kawaguchi, Katsumi Hirose, Mariko Sato, Hiroyoshi Akimoto, Ichitaro Fujioka, Shuichi Ono, Eiki Tsushima, Yoshihiro Takai
Second-line treatment of recurrent HNSCC: tumor debulking in combination with high-dose-rate brachytherapy and a simultaneous cetuximab-paclitaxel protocol
M. Ritter, I. U. Teudt, J. E. Meyer, U. Schröder, G. Kovács, B. Wollenberg
Lungtech, a phase II EORTC trial of SBRT for centrally located lung tumours – a clinical physics perspective
Marie Lambrecht, Christos Melidis, Jan-Jakob Sonke, Sonja Adebahr, Ronald Boellaard, Marcel Verheij, Matthias Guckenberger, Ursula Nestle, Coen Hurkmans
Outcomes of hypofractionated stereotactic body radiotherapy boost for intermediate and high-risk prostate cancer
Mekhail Anwar, Vivian Weinberg, Zachary Seymour, I. Joe Hsu, Mack Roach III, Alex R. Gottschalk
[18F]Choline PET/CT and stereotactic body radiotherapy on treatment decision making of oligometastatic prostate cancer patients: preliminary results
Francesco Pasqualetti, Marco Panichi, Aldo Sainato, Fabrizio Matteucci, Luca Galli, Paola Cocuzza, Patrizia Ferrazza, Gabriele Coraggio, Giuseppe Pasqualetti, Lisa Derosa, Martina Sollini, Lorenzo Mannelli, Simona Ortori, Fabio Monzani, Sergio Ricci, Carlo Greco, Maria Grazia Fabrini, Paola Anna Erba
Radiobiological impact of dose calculation algorithms on biologically optimized IMRT lung stereotactic body radiation therapy plans
X. Liang, J. Penagaricano, D. Zheng, S. Morrill, X. Zhang, P. Corry, R. J. Griffin, E. Y. Han, M. Hardee, V. Ratanatharathom
On the analysis of clonogenic survival data: Statistical alternatives to the linear-quadratic model
Steffen Unkel, Claus Belka, Kirsten Lauber
Inhalative steroids as an individual treatment in symptomatic lung cancer patients with radiation pneumonitis grade II after radiotherapy – a single-centre experience
C. Henkenberens, S. Janssen, M. Lavae-Mokhtari, K. Leni, A. Meyer, H. Christiansen, M. Bremer, N. Dickgreber
Evaluation of a dedicated brain metastases treatment planning optimization for radiosurgery: a new treatment paradigm?
Thierry Gevaert, Femke Steenbeke, Luca Pellegri, Benedikt Engels, Nicolas Christian, Marie-Thérèse Hoornaert, Dirk Verellen, Carine Mitine, Mark De Ridder
Biological modelling of the radiation dose escalation effect of regional hyperthermia in cervical cancer
J. Crezee, C. M. van Leeuwen, A. L. Oei, L. E. van Heerden, A. Bel, L. J. A. Stalpers, P. Ghadjar, N. A. P. Franken, H. P. Kok
A practical review of magnetic resonance imaging for the evaluation and management of cervical cancer
Emma C. Fields, Elisabeth Weiss
Comparison of breast sequential and simultaneous integrated boost using the biologically effective dose volume histogram (BEDVH)
Moamen M. O. M. Aly, Yasser Abo-Madyan, Lennart Jahnke, Frederik Wenz, Gerhard Glatting
Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for sinonasal tumors: a single center long-term clinical analysis
Vasileios Askoxylakis, Pia Hegenbarth, Carmen Timke, Ladan Saleh-Ebrahimi, Juergen Debus, Falk Röder, Peter E. Huber
Involved-field radiotherapy for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: theory and practice
Minghuan Li, Xiaoli Zhang, Fen Zhao, Yijun Luo, Li Kong, Jinming Yu
The influence of dose distribution on treatment outcome in the SCOPE 1 oesophageal cancer trial
Rhys Carrington, Emiliano Spezi, Sarah Gwynne, Peter Dutton, Chris Hurt, John Staffurth, Thomas Crosby
Association of oesophageal radiation dose volume metrics, neutropenia and acute radiation oesophagitis in patients receiving chemoradiotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer
Sarah Everitt, Mary Duffy, Mathias Bressel, Belinda McInnes, Christine Russell, Tim Sevitt, David Ball
Status quo and directions in deep head and neck hyperthermia
Margarethus M. Paulides, Gerda M. Verduijn, Netteke Van Holthe
Benefits of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy combined with incomplete transcatheter arterial chemoembolization in hepatocellular carcinoma
Eun Kyung Paik, Mi-Sook Kim, Won Il Jang, Young Seok Seo, Chul-Koo Cho, Hyung Jun Yoo, Chul Ju Han, Su Cheol Park, Sang Bum Kim, Young Han Kim
Beyond D’Amico risk classes for predicting recurrence after external beam radiotherapy for prostate cancer: the Candiolo classifier
Domenico Gabriele, Barbara A Jereczek-Fossa, Marco Krengli, Elisabetta Garibaldi, Maria Tessa, Gregorio Moro, Giuseppe Girelli, Pietro Gabriele
Consolidation chemotherapy during neoadjuvant chemoradiation (CRT) for distal rectal cancer leads to sustained decrease in tumor metabolism when compared to standard CRT regimen
Angelita Habr-Gama, Rodrigo O. Perez, Guilherme P. São Julião, Igor Proscurshim, Laura M. Fernandez, Marleny N. Figueiredo, Joaquim Gama-Rodrigues, Carlos A. Buchpiguel
The efficacy of postoperative radiotherapy in localized primary soft tissue sarcoma treated with conservative surgery
Ru-Ping Zhao, Xiao-Li Yu, Zhen Zhang, Li-Juan Jia, Yan Feng, Zhao-Zhi Yang, Xing-Xing Chen, Jian Wang, Sheng-Lin Ma, Xiao-Mao Guo
Activity-based cost analysis of hepatic tumor ablation using CT-guided high-dose rate brachytherapy or CT-guided radiofrequency ablation in hepatocellular carcinoma
D. Schnapauff, F. Collettini, I. Steffen, G. Wieners, B. Hamm, B. Gebauer, M. H. Maurer
Radiation Oncology reviewer acknowledgement 2015
Claus Belka, Sarah M. Theissen
Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for high-risk central pulmonary metastases
Jonathan W. Lischalk, Ryan M. Malik, Sean P. Collins, Brian T. Collins, Ismael A. Matus, Eric D. Anderson
Accelerated partial breast irradiation using robotic radiotherapy: a dosimetric comparison with tomotherapy and three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy
Erwann Rault, Thomas Lacornerie, Hong-Phuong Dang, Frederik Crop, Eric Lartigau, Nick Reynaert, David Pasquier
Monte Carlo simulation of beam characteristics from small fields based on TrueBeam flattening-filter-free mode
Zhongsu Feng, Haizhen Yue, Yibao Zhang, Hao Wu, Jinsheng Cheng, Xu Su
Local efficacy and survival outcome of salvage endoscopic therapy for local recurrent lesions after definitive chemoradiotherapy for esophageal cancer
Ken Hatogai, Tomonori Yano, Takashi Kojima, Masakatsu Onozawa, Satoshi Fujii, Hiroyuki Daiko, Yusuke Yoda, Takuya Hombu, Toshihiko Doi, Kazuhiro Kaneko, Atsushi Ohtsu
Acute toxicity in comprehensive head and neck radiation for nasopharynx and paranasal sinus cancers: cohort comparison of 3D conformal proton therapy and intensity modulated radiation therapy
Mark W. McDonald, Yuan Liu, Michael G. Moore, Peter A. S. Johnstone
Re-irradiating spinal column metastases using IMRT and VMAT with and without flattening filter - a treatment planning study
Barbara Dobler, Amine Khemissi, Tina Obermeier, Matthias G. Hautmann, Zaira Katsilieri, Oliver Kölbl
Chest wall desmoid tumours treated with definitive radiotherapy: a plan comparison of 3D conformal radiotherapy, intensity-modulated radiotherapy and volumetric-modulated arc radiotherapy
Jia Liu, Diana Ng, James Lee, Paul Stalley, Angela Hong
Overall survival after reirradiation of spinal metastases – independent validation of predictive models
Daniel Buergy, Lena Siedlitzki, Judit Boda-Heggemann, Frederik Wenz, Frank Lohr
A model for preemptive maintenance of medical linear accelerators—predictive maintenance
Charles M. Able, Alan H. Baydush, Callistus Nguyen, Jacob Gersh, Alois Ndlovu, Igor Rebo, Jeremy Booth, Mario Perez, Benjamin Sintay, Michael T. Munley
Distribution of prostate nodes: a PET/CT-derived anatomic atlas of prostate cancer patients before and after surgical treatment
Nina-Sophie Hegemann, Vera Wenter, Sonja Spath, Nadia Kusumo, Minglun Li, Peter Bartenstein, Wolfgang P. Fendler, Christian Stief, Claus Belka, Ute Ganswindt
Personalized treatment planning with a model of radiation therapy outcomes for use in multiobjective optimization of IMRT plans for prostate cancer
Wade P. Smith, Minsun Kim, Clay Holdsworth, Jay Liao, Mark H. Phillips
Short-course PET based simultaneous integrated boost for locally advanced cervical cancer
Marius Røthe Arnesen, Bernt Louni Rekstad, Caroline Stokke, Kjersti Bruheim, Ayca Muftuler Løndalen, Taran Paulsen Hellebust, Eirik Malinen
Time course and predictive factors for lung volume reduction following stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) of lung tumors
Michael S. Binkley, Joseph B. Shrager, Aadel Chaudhuri, Rita Popat, Peter G. Maxim, David Benjamin Shultz, Maximilian Diehn, Billy W. Loo Jr
Implementation of an intraoperative electron radiotherapy in vivo dosimetry program
Juan López-Tarjuelo, Virginia Morillo-Macías, Ana Bouché-Babiloni, Enrique Boldó-Roda, Rafael Lozoya-Albacar, Carlos Ferrer-Albiach
Feasibility of a 12-month-exercise intervention during and after radiation and chemotherapy in cancer patients: impact on quality of life, peak oxygen consumption, and body composition
Alexander Grabenbauer, Andrea J. Grabenbauer, Rosa Lengenfelder, Gerhard G. Grabenbauer, Luitpold V. Distel
[18F]FDG-PET/CT metabolic parameters as useful prognostic factors in cervical cancer patients treated with chemo-radiotherapy
Fernanda G. Herrera, Thomas Breuneval, John O. Prior, Jean Bourhis, Mahmut Ozsahin
Outcome of patients with local recurrent gynecologic malignancies after resection combined with intraoperative electron radiation therapy (IOERT)
Nathalie Arians, Robert Foerster, Joachim Rom, Matthias Uhl, Falk Roeder, Jürgen Debus, Katja Lindel
Clinical results of conformal versus intensity-modulated radiotherapy using a focal simultaneous boost for muscle-invasive bladder cancer in elderly or medically unfit patients
Lotte J. Lutkenhaus, Rob M. van Os, Arjan Bel, Maarten C. C. M. Hulshof
Total body irradiation with volumetric modulated arc therapy: Dosimetric data and first clinical experience
Andreas Springer, Josef Hammer, Erwin Winkler, Christine Track, Roswitha Huppert, Alexandra Böhm, Hedwig Kasparu, Ansgar Weltermann, Gregor Aschauer, Andreas L. Petzer, Ernst Putz, Alexander Altenburger, Rainer Gruber, Karin Moser, Karin Wiesauer, Hans Geinitz
Adding concurrent chemotherapy to postoperative radiotherapy improves locoregional control but Not overall survival in patients with salivary gland adenoid cystic carcinoma—a propensity score matched study
Cheng-En Hsieh, Chien-Yu Lin, Li-Yu Lee, Lan-Yan Yang, Chun-Chieh Wang, Hung-Ming Wang, Joseph Tung-Chieh Chang, Kang-Hsing Fan, Chun-Ta Liao, Tzu-Chen Yen, Ku-Hao Fang, Yan-Ming Tsang
Portfolio of prospective clinical trials including brachytherapy: an analysis of the ClinicalTrials.gov database
Nikola Cihoric, Alexandros Tsikkinis, Cristina Gutierrez Miguelez, Vratislav Strnad, Ivan Soldatovic, Pirus Ghadjar, Branislav Jeremic, Alan Dal Pra, Daniel M. Aebersold, Kristina Lössl
Intra-fraction motion of the prostate is not increased by patient couch shifts
Hendrik Ballhausen, Ute Ganswindt, Claus Belka, Minglun Li
Predicting multi-class responses to preoperative chemoradiotherapy in rectal cancer patients
Jungsoo Gim, Yong Beom Cho, Hye Kyung Hong, Hee Cheol Kim, Seong Hyeon Yun, Hong-Gyun Wu, Seung-Yong Jeong, Je-Gun Joung, Taesung Park, Woong-Yang Park, Woo Yong Lee
Characterization of the serum metabolome following radiation treatment in patients with high-grade gliomas
Lina Mörén, Carl Wibom, Per Bergström, Mikael Johansson, Henrik Antti, A. Tommy Bergenheim
Intensity modulated arc therapy implementation in a three phase adaptive 18F-FDG-PET voxel intensity-based planning strategy for head-and-neck cancer
Dieter Berwouts, Luiza Ana Maria Olteanu, Bruno Speleers, Frédéric Duprez, Indira Madani, Tom Vercauteren, Wilfried De Neve, Werner De Gersem
Genital invasion or perigenital spread may pose a risk of marginal misses for Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) in anal cancer
Julia Koeck, Frank Lohr, Daniel Buergy, Karen Büsing, Marcus J. Trunk, Frederik Wenz, Sabine Mai
Early detection and prediction of cardiotoxicity after radiation therapy for breast cancer: the BACCARAT prospective cohort study
Sophie Jacob, Atul Pathak, Denis Franck, Igor Latorzeff, Gaelle Jimenez, Olivier Fondard, Matthieu Lapeyre, Daniel Colombier, Eric Bruguiere, Olivier Lairez, Benoit Fontenel, Fabien Milliat, Radia Tamarat, David Broggio, Sylvie Derreumaux, Marianne Ducassou, Jean Ferrières, Dominique Laurier, Marc Benderitter, Marie-Odile Bernier
Outcomes of patients with loco-regionally recurrent or new primary squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck treated with curative intent reirradiation at Mayo Clinic
Kelly K. Curtis, Helen J. Ross, Ashley L. Garrett, Theresa A. Jizba, Ajay B. Patel, Samir H. Patel, William W. Wong, Michele Y. Halyard, Stephen J. Ko, Heidi E. Kosiorek, Robert L. Foote
The clinical results of proton beam therapy in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a single center experience
Takashi Ono, Masato Hareyama, Tatsuya Nakamura, Kanako Kimura, Yuichiro Hayashi, Yusuke Azami, Katsumi Hirose, Yoshiomi Hatayama, Motohisa Suzuki, Hitoshi Wada, Yasuhiro Kikuchi, Kenji Nemoto
Variability in spine radiosurgery treatment planning – results of an international multi-institutional study
André Toussaint, Anne Richter, Frederick Mantel, John C. Flickinger, Inga Siiner Grills, Neelam Tyagi, Arjun Sahgal, Daniel Letourneau, Jason P. Sheehan, David J. Schlesinger, Peter Carlos Gerszten, Matthias Guckenberger
Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy of benign skull-base tumors: a dosimetric comparison of volumetric modulated arc therapy with Rapidarc® versus non-coplanar dynamic arcs
Fanny Martin, Florian Magnier, Lucie Berger, Jessica Miroir, Emmanuel Chautard, Pierre Verrelle, Michel Lapeyre, Julian Biau
Whole brain radiotherapy with adjuvant or concomitant boost in brain metastasis: dosimetric comparison between helical and volumetric IMRT technique
Paolo Borghetti, Sara Pedretti, Luigi Spiazzi, Rossella Avitabile, Mauro Urpis, Federica Foscarini, Giulia Tesini, Francesca Trevisan, Paolo Ghirardelli, Sara Angela Pandini, Luca Triggiani, Stefano Maria Magrini, Michela Buglione
Feasibility study of DCs/CIKs combined with thoracic radiotherapy for patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer
Luping Zhang, Yanmei Xu, Jie Shen, Feng He, Dan Zhang, Zhengtang Chen, Yuzhong Duan, Jianguo Sun
Circulating miR-29a and miR-150 correlate with delivered dose during thoracic radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer
Tru-Khang T. Dinh, Wojciech Fendler, Justyna Chałubińska-Fendler, Sanket S. Acharya, Colin O’Leary, Peter V. Deraska, Alan D. D’Andrea, Dipanjan Chowdhury, David Kozono
The impact of time factors on overall survival in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a population-based study
Po-Chun Chen, Wen-Shan Liu, Wei-Lun Huang, Cheng-Jung Wu, Ching-Chieh Yang, Ching-Chih Lee
Initial characterization, dosimetric benchmark and performance validation of Dynamic Wave Arc
Manuela Burghelea, Dirk Verellen, Kenneth Poels, Cecilia Hung, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Jennifer Dhont, Thierry Gevaert, Robbe Van den Begin, Christine Collen, Yukinori Matsuo, Takahiro Kishi, Viorica Simon, Masahiro Hiraoka, Mark de Ridder
Feasibility of automated proton therapy plan adaptation for head and neck tumors using cone beam CT images
Christopher Kurz, Reinoud Nijhuis, Michael Reiner, Ute Ganswindt, Christian Thieke, Claus Belka, Katia Parodi, Guillaume Landry
Regional hyperthermia combined with chemotherapy in paediatric, adolescent and young adult patients: current and future perspectives
Georg Seifert, Volker Budach, Ulrich Keilholz, Peter Wust, Angelika Eggert, Pirus Ghadjar
Establishing the feasibility of the dosimetric compliance criteria of RTOG 1308: phase III randomized trial comparing overall survival after photon versus proton radiochemotherapy for inoperable stage II-IIIB NSCLC
Tawfik Giaddui, Wenzhou Chen, Jialu Yu, Liyong Lin, Charles B. Simone II, Lulin Yuan, Yutao U. T. Gong, Q. Jackie Wu, Radhe Mohan, Xiaodong Zhang, Jaques B. Bluett, Michael Gillin, Kevin Moore, Elizabeth O’Meara, Jennifer Presley, Jeffrey D. Bradley, Zhongxing Liao, James Galvin, Ying Xiao
Challenges in radiobiological modeling: can we decide between LQ and LQ-L models based on reviewed clinical NSCLC treatment outcome data?
Alina Santiago, Steffen Barczyk, Urszula Jelen, Rita Engenhart-Cabillic, Andrea Wittig
Variable RBE in proton therapy: comparison of different model predictions and their influence on clinical-like scenarios
Giulia Giovannini, Till Böhlen, Gonzalo Cabal, Julia Bauer, Thomas Tessonnier, Kathrin Frey, Jürgen Debus, Andrea Mairani, Katia Parodi
Cost-effectiveness of sorafenib versus SBRT for unresectable advanced hepatocellular carcinoma
Henry W. C. Leung, Chung-Feng Liu, Agnes L. F. Chan
Accelerated hyperfractionation plus temozolomide in glioblastoma
David Kaul, Julian Florange, Harun Badakhshi, Arne Grün, Pirus Ghadjar, Sebastian Exner, Volker Budach
The dosimetric impact of implants on the spinal cord dose during stereotactic body radiotherapy
Gozde Yazici, Sezin Yuce Sari, Fazli Yagiz Yedekci, Altug Yucekul, Sumerya Duru Birgi, Gokhan Demirkiran, Melis Gultekin, Pervin Hurmuz, Muharrem Yazici, Gokhan Ozyigit, Mustafa Cengiz
Renal atrophy after stereotactic body radiotherapy for renal cell carcinoma
Takaya Yamamoto, Noriyuki Kadoya, Ken Takeda, Haruo Matsushita, Rei Umezawa, Kiyokazu Sato, Masaki Kubozono, Kengo Ito, Yojiro Ishikawa, Maiko Kozumi, Noriyoshi Takahashi, Yu Katagiri, Hiroshi Onishi, Keiichi Jingu
Integration of 68Ga-PSMA-PET imaging in planning of primary definitive radiotherapy in prostate cancer: a retrospective study
Sabrina Dewes, Kilian Schiller, Katharina Sauter, Matthias Eiber, Tobias Maurer, Markus Schwaiger, Jürgen E. Gschwend, Stephanie E. Combs, Gregor Habl
Clinical results of mean GTV dose optimized robotic guided SBRT for liver metastases
Nicolaus Andratschke, Alan Parys, Susanne Stadtfeld, Stefan Wurster, Stefan Huttenlocher, Detlef Imhoff, Müjdat Yildirim, Dirk Rades, Claus Michael Rödel, Jürgen Dunst, Guido Hildebrandt, Oliver Blanck
Role of SGK1 for fatty acid uptake, cell survival and radioresistance of NCI-H460 lung cancer cells exposed to acute or chronic cycling severe hypoxia
Johann Matschke, Elisa Wiebeck, Sebastian Hurst, Justine Rudner, Verena Jendrossek
Hypo-fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy alone using volumetric modulated arc therapy for patients with single, large brain metastases unsuitable for surgical resection
Pierina Navarria, Federico Pessina, Luca Cozzi, Anna Maria Ascolese, Fiorenza De Rose, Antonella Fogliata, Ciro Franzese, Davide Franceschini, Angelo Tozzi, Giuseppe D’Agostino, Tiziana Comito, Cristina Iftode, Giulia Maggi, Giacomo Reggiori, Lorenzo Bello, Marta Scorsetti
Combined sunitinib and radiation therapy for preoperative treatment of soft tissue sarcoma: results of a phase I trial of the German interdisciplinary sarcoma group (GISG-03)
Jens Jakob, Anna Simeonova, Bernd Kasper, Ulrich Ronellenfitsch, Geraldine Rauch, Frederik Wenz, Peter Hohenberger
Different outcomes among favourable and unfavourable intermediate-risk prostate cancer patients treated with hypofractionated radiotherapy and androgen deprivation therapy
Stefano Bracci, Mattia F. Osti, Linda Agolli, Luca Bertaccini, Vitaliana De Sanctis, Maurizio Valeriani
A Nomogram to predict parotid gland overdose in head and neck IMRT
J. Castelli, A. Simon, B. Rigaud, C. Lafond, E. Chajon, J. D. Ospina, P. Haigron, B. Laguerre, A. Ruffier Loubière, K. Benezery, R. de Crevoisier
Establishing stereotactic body radiotherapy with flattening filter free techniques in the treatment of pulmonary lesions - initial experiences from a single institution
Juliane Rieber, Eric Tonndorf-Martini, Oliver Schramm, Bernhard Rhein, Laila König, Sebastian Adeberg, Eva Meyerhof, Angela Mohr, Jutta Kappes, Hans Hoffmann, Jürgen Debus, Stefan Rieken
Total body irradiation—an attachment free sweeping beam technique
Petra M. Härtl, Marius Treutwein, Matthias G. Hautmann, Manuel März, Fabian Pohl, Oliver Kölbl, Barbara Dobler
Capability of leaf interdigitation with different inverse planning strategies in Monaco: an investigation of representative tumour sites
Jinghao Duan, Xiangjuan Meng, Tonghai Liu, Yong Yin
Target dose conversion modeling from pencil beam (PB) to Monte Carlo (MC) for lung SBRT
Dandan Zheng, Xiaofeng Zhu, Qinghui Zhang, Xiaoying Liang, Weining Zhen, Chi Lin, Vivek Verma, Shuo Wang, Andrew Wahl, Yu Lei, Sumin Zhou, Chi Zhang
Prognostic factors in clinical T1N0M0 thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma invading the muscularis mucosa or submucosa
Yusuke Uchinami, Miyako Myojin, Hiroaki Takahashi, Keiichi Harada, Shinichi Shimizu, Masao Hosokawa
The effect of extremely narrow MLC leaf width on the plan quality of VMAT for prostate cancer
Jong Min Park, So-Yeon Park, Jin Ho Kim, Joel Carlson, Jung-in Kim
Non-coplanar volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for craniopharyngiomas reduces radiation doses to the bilateral hippocampus: a planning study comparing dynamic conformal arc therapy, coplanar VMAT, and non-coplanar VMAT
Megumi Uto, Takashi Mizowaki, Kengo Ogura, Masahiro Hiraoka
Relapse patterns after radiochemotherapy of glioblastoma with FET PET-guided boost irradiation and simulation to optimize radiation target volume
Marc D. Piroth, Norbert Galldiks, Michael Pinkawa, Richard Holy, Gabriele Stoffels, Johannes Ermert, Felix M. Mottaghy, N. Jon Shah, Karl-Josef Langen, Michael J. Eble
Feasibility study on image guided patient positioning for stereotactic body radiation therapy of liver malignancies guided by liver motion
Christian Heinz, Sabine Gerum, Philipp Freislederer, Ute Ganswindt, Falk Roeder, Stefanie Corradini, Claus Belka, Maximilian Niyazi
Clinical parameters for predicting radiation-induced liver disease after intrahepatic reirradiation for hepatocellular carcinoma
Yaoru Huang, Shang-Wen Chen, Ching-Chao Fan, Lai-Lei Ting, Chia-Chun Kuo, Jeng-Fong Chiou
Carbon ion therapy (C12) for high-grade malignant salivary gland tumors (MSGTs) of the head and neck: do non-ACCs profit from dose escalation?
A. D. Jensen, M. Poulakis, V. Vanoni, M. Uhl, N. Chaudhri, P. A. Federspil, K. Freier, J. Krauss, J. Debus
Titanium peroxide nanoparticles enhanced cytotoxic effects of X-ray irradiation against pancreatic cancer model through reactive oxygen species generation in vitro and in vivo
Masao Nakayama, Ryohei Sasaki, Chiaki Ogino, Tsutomu Tanaka, Kenta Morita, Mitsuo Umetsu, Satoshi Ohara, Zhenquan Tan, Yuya Nishimura, Hiroaki Akasaka, Kazuyoshi Sato, Chiya Numako, Seiichi Takami, Akihiko Kondo
The effect of non-small cell lung cancer histology on survival as measured by the graded prognostic assessment in patients with brain metastases treated by hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy
Liang-Hua Ma, Guang Li, Hong-Wei Zhang, Zhi-Yu Wang, Jun Dang, Shuo Zhang, Lei Yao
Local radiotherapy alone following neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgery in combined clinical stage II and III breast cancer
Rohen White, Tamara Dinneen, Andreas Makris
Transcriptomic analyses of the radiation response in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma subclones with different radiation sensitivity: time-course gene expression profiles and gene association networks
Agata Michna, Ulrike Schötz, Martin Selmansberger, Horst Zitzelsberger, Kirsten Lauber, Kristian Unger, Julia Hess
Methodology for analysis and reporting patterns of failure in the Era of IMRT: head and neck cancer applications
Abdallah S. R. Mohamed, David I. Rosenthal, Musaddiq J. Awan, Adam S. Garden, Esengul Kocak-Uzel, Abdelaziz M. Belal, Ahmed G. El-Gowily, Jack Phan, Beth M. Beadle, G. Brandon Gunn, Clifton D. Fuller
Low-dose brachytherapy for early stage penile cancer: a 20-year single-institution study (73 patients)
Abel Cordoba, Alexandre Escande, Stephanie Lopez, Laurent Mortier, Xavier Mirabel, Bernard Coche-Déqueant, Eric Lartigau
Resistance training concomitant to radiotherapy of spinal bone metastases – survival and prognostic factors of a randomized trial
Harald Rief, Thomas Bruckner, Ingmar Schlampp, Tilman Bostel, Thomas Welzel, Jürgen Debus, Robert Förster
Evaluation of gantry speed on image quality and imaging dose for 4D cone-beam CT acquisition
Andrew P. Santoso, Kwang H. Song, Yujiao Qin, Stephen J. Gardner, Chang Liu, Indrin J. Chetty, Benjamin Movsas, Munther Ajlouni, Ning Wen
Temporo-spatial cell-cycle kinetics in HeLa cells irradiated by Ir-192 high dose-rate remote afterloading system (HDR-RALS)
Taito Asahina, Atsushi Kaida, Tatsuaki Goto, Ryo-Ichi Yoshimura, Keisuke Sasai, Masahiko Miura
Impact of hypofractionation and tangential beam IMRT on the acute skin reaction in adjuvant breast cancer radiotherapy
Volker Rudat, Alaa Nour, Salam Abou Ghaida, Aziz Alaradi
Potential risk factors for jaw osteoradionecrosis after radiotherapy for head and neck cancer
Thomas Kuhnt, Andreas Stang, Andreas Wienke, Dirk Vordermark, Ramona Schweyen, Jeremias Hey
Optimal timing of salvage radiotherapy for biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy: is ultra-early salvage radiotherapy beneficial?
Satoru Taguchi, Kenshiro Shiraishi, Hiroshi Fukuhara, Keiichi Nakagawa, Teppei Morikawa, Akihiro Naito, Shigenori Kakutani, Yuta Takeshima, Hideyo Miyazaki, Tohru Nakagawa, Tetsuya Fujimura, Haruki Kume, Yukio Homma
Dosimetric impact of different bladder and rectum filling during prostate cancer radiotherapy
Zhi Chen, Zhaozhi Yang, Jiazhou Wang, Weigang Hu
Re-irradiation for locoregionally recurrent tumors of the thorax: a single-institution, retrospective study
Kiyomi Sumita, Hideyuki Harada, Hirofumi Asakura, Hirofumi Ogawa, Tsuyoshi Onoe, Shigeyuki Murayama, Satoaki Nakamura, Noboru Tanigawa, Toshiaki Takahashi, Tetsuo Nishimura
Early clinical experience utilizing scintillator with optical fiber (SOF) detector in clinical boron neutron capture therapy: its issues and solutions
Masayori Ishikawa, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Akira Matsumura, Junichi Hiratsuka, Shin-Ichi Miyatake, Itsuro Kato, Yoshinori Sakurai, Hiroaki Kumada, Shubhechha J. Shrestha, Koji Ono
Investigation of a real-time EPID-based patient dose monitoring safety system using site-specific control limits
Todsaporn Fuangrod, Peter B. Greer, Henry C. Woodruff, John Simpson, Shashank Bhatia, Benjamin Zwan, Timothy A. vanBeek, Boyd M.C. McCurdy, Richard H. Middleton
Transient effects of tumor location on the functional architecture at rest in glioblastoma patients: three longitudinal case studies
Noora Tuovinen, Francesco de Pasquale, Massimo Caulo, Chiara Falletta Caravasso, Emilia Giudice, Roberto Miceli, Gianluca Ingrosso, Anne Laprie, Riccardo Santoni, Umberto Sabatini
Applying a RapidPlan model trained on a technique and orientation to another: a feasibility and dosimetric evaluation
Hao Wu, Fan Jiang, Haizhen Yue, Hui Zhang, Kun Wang, Yibao Zhang
The impact of positron emission tomography on primary tumour delineation and dosimetric outcome in intensity modulated radiotherapy of early T-stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Vincent W. C. Wu, Wan-shun Leung, Kwun-lam Wong, Ying-kit Chan, Wing-lam Law, Wing-kwan Leung, Yat-long Yu
Radiotherapy for Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma: still standard practice and not an outdated treatment option
Michel Zimmermann, Christoph Oehler, Ulrich Mey, Pirus Ghadjar, Daniel Rudolf Zwahlen
Simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) radiation therapy of right sided breast cancer with and without flattening filter - A treatment planning study
Johannes Maier, Bernadette Knott, Manuel Maerz, Rainer Loeschel, Oliver Koelbl, Barbara Dobler
Design and evaluation of electron beam energy degraders for breast boost irradiation
Jong In Park, Sung Whan Ha, Jung-in Kim, Hyunseok Lee, Jaegi Lee, Il Han Kim, Sung-Joon Ye
High-risk factors of parotid lymph node metastasis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a case-control study
Hong-zhi Wang, Cai-neng Cao, Jing-wei Luo, Jun-lin Yi, Xiao-dong Huang, Shi-ping Zhang, Kai Wang, Yuan Qu, Jian-ping Xiao, Su-yan Li, Li Gao, Guo-zhen Xu
Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy instead of revision radical resection after local excision for high-risk early rectal cancer
Jae-Uk Jeong, Taek-Keun Nam, Hyeong-Rok Kim, Hyun-Jeong Shim, Yong-Hyub Kim, Mee Sun Yoon, Ju-Young Song, Sung-Ja Ahn, Woong-Ki Chung
A critical review of recent developments in radiotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer
Sarah Baker, Max Dahele, Frank J. Lagerwaard, Suresh Senan
IMRT delivers lower radiation doses to dental structures than 3DRT in head and neck cancer patients
Eduardo Rodrigues Fregnani, Cláudia Joffily Parahyba, Karina Morais-Faria, Felipe Paiva Fonseca, Pedro Augusto Mendes Ramos, Fábio Yone de Moraes, Karina Gondim Moutinho da Conceição Vasconcelos, Gisela Menegussi, Alan Roger Santos-Silva, Thais B. Brandão
Prospective assessment of the quality of life before, during and after image guided intensity modulated radiotherapy for prostate cancer
Joen Sveistrup, Ole Steen Mortensen, Jakob B Bjørner, Svend Aage Engelholm, Per Munck af Rosenschöld, Peter Meidahl Petersen
Hippocampal sparing radiotherapy for glioblastoma patients: a planning study using volumetric modulated arc therapy
Jan Hofmaier, Steffi Kantz, Matthias Söhn, Oliver S. Dohm, Stefan Bächle, Markus Alber, Katia Parodi, Claus Belka, Maximilian Niyazi
Repeated iodine-125 seed implantations combined with external beam radiotherapy for the treatment of locally recurrent or metastatic stage III/IV non-small cell lung cancer: a retrospective study
Wei Li, Gang Dan, Jianqing Jiang, Yifeng Zheng, Xiushan Zheng, Dan Deng
Phase II trial of hypofractionated VMAT-based treatment for early stage breast cancer: 2-year toxicity and clinical results
Fiorenza De Rose, Antonella Fogliata, Davide Franceschini, Piera Navarria, Elisa Villa, Cristina Iftode, Giuseppe D’Agostino, Luca Cozzi, Francesca Lobefalo, Pietro Mancosu, Stefano Tomatis, Marta Scorsetti
Prognostic value of phosphorylated Raf kinase inhibitory protein at serine 153 and its predictive effect on the clinical response to radiotherapy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Siwei Li, Taowen Liu, Wenfa Mo, Qiaoyan Hou, Yingqiong Zhou, Meilian Liu, Zhoukai He, Zhengchun Liu, Qiuqiu Chen, Hua Wang, Xiang Guo, Weixiong Xia, Musheng Zeng, Haiyun Zhao
Deformable image registration for adaptive radiotherapy with guaranteed local rigidity constraints
Lars König, Alexander Derksen, Nils Papenberg, Benjamin Haas
Diffusion and perfusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging for tumor volume definition in radiotherapy of brain tumors
Lu Guo, Gang Wang, Yuanming Feng, Tonggang Yu, Yu Guo, Xu Bai, Zhaoxiang Ye
Involved field radiotherapy (IFRT) versus elective nodal irradiation (ENI) for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer: a meta-analysis of incidence of elective nodal failure (ENF)
Ruijian Li, Liang Yu, Sixiang Lin, Lina Wang, Xin Dong, Lingxia Yu, Weiyi Li, Baosheng Li
To gate or not to gate - dosimetric evaluation comparing Gated vs. ITV-based methodologies in stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) treatment of lung cancer
Joshua Kim, Qixue Wu, Bo Zhao, Ning Wen, Munther Ajlouni, Benjamin Movsas, Indrin J. Chetty
PARP-1 depletion in combination with carbon ion exposure significantly reduces MMPs activity and overall increases TIMPs expression in cultured HeLa cells
Atanu Ghorai, Asitikantha Sarma, Priyanka Chowdhury, Utpal Ghosh
Long-term disease-specific and cognitive quality of life after intensity-modulated radiation therapy: a cross-sectional survey of nasopharyngeal carcinoma survivors
Alan Kiang, Vivian K. Weinberg, Ka Ho Nicholas Cheung, Erin Shugard, Josephine Chen, Jeanne M. Quivey, Sue S. Yom
A treatment planning study comparing tomotherapy, volumetric modulated arc therapy, Sliding Window and proton therapy for low-risk prostate carcinoma
Sergiu Scobioala, Christopher Kittel, Nicolas Wissmann, Uwe Haverkamp, Mohammed Channaoui, Omar Habibeh, Khaled Elsayad, Hans Theodor Eich
Erratum to: Low-dose brachytherapy for early stage penile cancer: a 20-year single-institution study (73 patients)
Abel Cordoba, Alexandre Escande, Stephanie Lopez, Laurent Mortier, Xavier Mirabel, Bernard Coche-Déqueant, Eric Lartigau
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for late radiation-induced tissue toxicity: prospectively patient-reported outcome measures in breast cancer patients
David N. Teguh, René Bol Raap, Henk Struikmans, Cees Verhoef, Linetta B. Koppert, Arne Koole, Yadi Huang, Rob A. van Hulst
Salvage surgery for local failures after stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for early stage non-small cell lung cancer
Naomi E. Verstegen, Alexander P. W. M. Maat, Frank J. Lagerwaard, Marinus A. Paul, Michel I Versteegh, Joris J. Joosten, Willem Lastdrager, Egbert F. Smit, Ben J. Slotman, Joost J. M. E. Nuyttens, Suresh Senan
Precise film dosimetry for stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic body radiotherapy quality assurance using Gafchromic™ EBT3 films
Ning Wen, Siming Lu, Jinkoo Kim, Yujiao Qin, Yimei Huang, Bo Zhao, Chang Liu, Indrin J. Chetty
Reduced volume SIB-IMRT/IGRT to head and neck cancer in elderly and frail patients: outcome and toxicity
Christoph Straube, Steffi U. Pigorsch, Hagen Scherb, Jan J. Wilkens, Henning Bier, Stephanie E. Combs
Worst case optimization for interfractional motion mitigation in carbon ion therapy of pancreatic cancer
Julian Steitz, Patrick Naumann, Silke Ulrich, Matthias F. Haefner, Florian Sterzing, Uwe Oelfke, Mark Bangert
Target delineation and optimal radiosurgical dose for pituitary tumors
Giuseppe Minniti, Mattia Falchetto Osti, Maximillian Niyazi
Soft tissue sarcoma of the extremities: pending questions on surgery and radiotherapy
Fien Hoefkens, Charlotte Dehandschutter, Johan Somville, Paul Meijnders, Dirk Van Gestel
Mucosal melanoma of the head and neck: a population-based study from Slovenia, 1985-2013
Gaber Plavc, Jasna But-Hadžić, Aleksandar Aničin, Boštjan Lanišnik, Vojislav Didanović, Primož Strojan
Pancreatic cancer adjuvant radiotherapy target volume design: based on the postoperative local recurrence spatial location
Wei Yu, Wei Hu, Yongjie Shui, Xiaoyang Zhu, Chao Li, Xiaoqiu Ren, Xueli Bai, Risheng Yu, Li Shen, Tingbo Liang, Lei Zheng, Qichun Wei
Suspected recurrence of brain metastases after focused high dose radiotherapy: can [18F]FET- PET overcome diagnostic uncertainties?
Alexander Romagna, Marcus Unterrainer, Christine Schmid-Tannwald, Matthias Brendel, Jörg-Christian Tonn, Silke Birgit Nachbichler, Alexander Muacevic, Peter Bartenstein, Friedrich-Wilhelm Kreth, Nathalie Lisa Albert
A treatment planning study of proton arc therapy for para-aortic lymph node tumors: dosimetric evaluation of conventional proton therapy, proton arc therapy, and intensity modulated radiotherapy
Jeong-Eun Rah, Gwe-Ya Kim, Do Hoon Oh, Tae Hyun Kim, Jong Won Kim, Dae Yong Kim, Sung Yong Park, Dongho Shin
Apparent diffusion coefficient histogram shape analysis for monitoring early response in patients with advanced cervical cancers undergoing concurrent chemo-radiotherapy
Jie Meng, Lijing Zhu, Li Zhu, Huanhuan Wang, Song Liu, Jing Yan, Baorui Liu, Yue Guan, Yun Ge, Jian He, Zhengyang Zhou, Xiaofeng Yang
Registration uncertainties between 3D cone beam computed tomography and different reference CT datasets in lung stereotactic body radiation therapy
Markus Oechsner, Barbara Chizzali, Michal Devecka, Stephanie Elisabeth Combs, Jan Jakob Wilkens, Marciana Nona Duma
Treatment planning and evaluation of gated radiotherapy in left-sided breast cancer patients using the CatalystTM/SentinelTM system for deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH)
S. Schönecker, F. Walter, P. Freislederer, C. Marisch, H. Scheithauer, N. Harbeck, S. Corradini, C. Belka
Prostate external beam radiotherapy combined with high-dose-rate brachytherapy: dose-volume parameters from deformably-registered plans correlate with late gastrointestinal complications
Calyn R. Moulton, Michael J. House, Victoria Lye, Colin I. Tang, Michele Krawiec, David J. Joseph, James W. Denham, Martin A. Ebert
Absolute volume of the rectum and AUC from rectal DVH between 25Gy and 50Gy predict acute gastrointestinal toxicity with IG-IMRT in prostate cancer
Céline Mirjolet, Paul M. Walker, Mélanie Gauthier, Cécile Dalban, Suzanne Naudy, Frédéric Mazoyer, Etienne Martin, Philippe Maingon, Gilles Créhange
Comparisons of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) quality assurance (QA) systems: sensitivity analysis to machine errors
Bin Liang, Bo Liu, Fugen Zhou, Fang-fang Yin, Qiuwen Wu
Initial results for patient setup verification using transperineal ultrasound and cone beam CT in external beam radiation therapy of prostate cancer
Anne Richter, Bülent Polat, Ingulf Lawrenz, Stefan Weick, Otto Sauer, Michael Flentje, Frederick Mantel
Radiomics based targeted radiotherapy planning (Rad-TRaP): a computational framework for prostate cancer treatment planning with MRI
Rakesh Shiradkar, Tarun K Podder, Ahmad Algohary, Satish Viswanath, Rodney J. Ellis, Anant Madabhushi
Estimation of second cancer risk after radiotherapy for rectal cancer: comparison of 3D conformal radiotherapy and volumetric modulated arc therapy using different high dose fractionation schemes
Daniel R. Zwahlen, Laura I. Bischoff, Günther Gruber, Marcin Sumila, Uwe Schneider
Intrafractional dose variation and beam configuration in carbon ion radiotherapy for esophageal cancer
M. F. Haefner, F. Sterzing, D. Krug, S. A. Koerber, O. Jaekel, J. Debus, M. M. Haertig
Contribution of submandibular gland and swallowing structure sparing to post-radiation therapy PEG dependence in oropharynx cancer patients treated with split-neck IMRT technique
Michael F. Gensheimer, Matthew Nyflot, George E. Laramore, Jay J. Liao, Upendra Parvathaneni
4DCT and CBCT based PTV margin in Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy(SBRT) of non-small cell lung tumor adhered to chest wall or diaphragm
Yi Li, Jing-lu Ma, Xin Chen, Feng-wen Tang, Xiao-zhi Zhang
MGDG extracted from spinach enhances the cytotoxicity of radiation in pancreatic cancer cells
Hiroaki Akasaka, Yoshiyuki Mizushina, Kenji Yoshida, Yasuo Ejima, Naritoshi Mukumoto, Tianyuan Wang, Sachiko Inubushi, Masao Nakayama, Yuki Wakahara, Ryohei Sasaki
Evaluation of daily patient positioning for radiotherapy with a commercial 3D surface-imaging system (Catalyst™)
F. Walter, P. Freislederer, C. Belka, C. Heinz, M. Söhn, F. Roeder
Class solutions for SABR-VMAT for high-risk prostate cancer with and without elective nodal irradiation
Sarah O. S. Osman, Prakash Jeevanandam, Nithya Kanakavelu, Denise M. Irvine, Ciara A. Lyons, Suneil Jain, Alan R. Hounsell, Conor K. McGarry
Distribution of FDG-avid nodes in esophageal cancer: implications for radiotherapy target delineation
Brandon Garcia, Karyn A. Goodman, Lajhem Cambridge, Mark Dunphy, Abraham J. Wu
SBRT for centrally localized NSCLC – What is too central?
J. Roesch, C. Panje, F. Sterzing, F. Mantel, U. Nestle, N. Andratschke, M. Guckenberger
Stereoscopic X-ray imaging, cone beam CT, and couch positioning in stereotactic radiotherapy of intracranial tumors: preliminary results from a cross-modality pilot installation
Barbara Zollner, Christian Heinz, Sabrina Pitzler, Farkhad Manapov, Steffi Kantz, Maya Christine Rottler, Maximilian Niyazi, Ute Ganswindt, Claus Belka, Hendrik Ballhausen
Three-dimensional surface and ultrasound imaging for daily IGRT of prostate cancer
Marco Krengli, Gianfranco Loi, Carla Pisani, Debora Beldì, Giuseppina Apicella, Valentina Amisano, Marco Brambilla
Beam Output Audit results within the EORTC Radiation Oncology Group network
Coen W. Hurkmans, Melissa Christiaens, Sandra Collette, Damien Charles Weber