List of works by Simon J Thomas

A comparison of four indices for combining distance and dose differences

scientific article published on 11 February 2012

A computer-calculated difference tissue compensator system

scientific article published on 01 July 1985

A method for acquiring random range uncertainty probability distributions in proton therapy

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

A modified power-law formula for inhomogeneity corrections in beams of high-energy x rays.

scientific article published in July 1991

A multicentre timing study of intensity-modulated radiotherapy planning and delivery

scientific article published in October 2010

A radiotherapy technique to improve dose homogeneity around bone prostheses

scientific article published on January 2004

A tool to measure radiotherapy complexity and workload: derivation from the basic treatment equivalent (BTE) concept

scientific article published on January 2001

Absorbed dose behind eye shields during kilovoltage photon radiotherapy

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Accumulated dose to the rectum, measured using dose-volume histograms and dose-surface maps, is different from planned dose in all patients treated with radiotherapy for prostate cancer

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Accuracy of a relocatable stereotactic radiotherapy head frame evaluated by use of a depth helmet

scientific article published in February 2002

An evaluation of the mid-ventilation method for the planning of stereotactic lung plans

scientific article published on 11 May 2019

An unexpected artefact with low-contrast high-energy film.

scientific article published on 15 December 2005

Anatomical change during radiotherapy for head and neck cancer, and its effect on delivered dose to the spinal cord

scientific article published on 23 July 2018

Automated retrieval of radiotherapy data for clinical trials, audit and research.

scientific article published on 10 November 2017

Automatic contour propagation using deformable image registration to determine delivered dose to spinal cord in head-and-neck cancer radiotherapy

scientific article published on 2 June 2017

Autosegmentation of the rectum on megavoltage image guidance scans

scientific article published on 10 January 2019

Capacity and demand models for radiotherapy treatment machines.

scientific article published in September 2003

Comment on "Dose homogeneity specification for reference dosimetry of nonstandard fields" [Med. Phys. 39, 407-414 (2012)].

scientific article published in March 2013

Consideration of the likely benefit from implementation of prostate image-guided radiotherapy using current margin sizes: a radiobiological analysis.

scientific article published on 14 February 2012

Defining robustness protocols: a method to include and evaluate robustness in clinical plans.

scientific article published on 13 March 2015

Defining the tumour and target volumes for radiotherapy.

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Delivered dose can be a better predictor of rectal toxicity than planned dose in prostate radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 28 April 2017

Dose calculation software for helical tomotherapy, utilizing patient CT data to calculate an independent three-dimensional dose cube

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Dose-volume population histogram: a new tool for evaluating plans whilst considering geometrical uncertainties.

scientific article published on 16 January 2009

Equivalent diameters of elliptical fields.

scientific article published in November 2004

Equivalent squares for small field dosimetry.

scientific article published in November 2008

Evaluating competing and emerging technologies for stereotactic body radiotherapy and other advanced radiotherapy techniques

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Exploiting biological and physical determinants of radiotherapy toxicity to individualize treatment

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Factors affecting penumbral shape and 3D dose distributions in stereotactic radiotherapy

scientific article published on 01 April 1994

Geant4 simulation of the Elekta XVI kV CBCT unit for accurate description of potential late toxicity effects of image-guided radiotherapy.

scientific article published in December 2014

How much surplus capacity is required to maintain low waiting times?

scientific article published in January 2001

IMRT can be faster to deliver than conformal radiotherapy

scientific article published on 10 March 2010

Impact of the fixed gantry angle approximation on dosimetric accuracy for helical tomotherapy plans

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Implementation of TomoEDGE in the independent dose calculator CheckTomo.

scientific article published on 6 March 2017

Intra-fraction motion of the prostate during treatment with helical tomotherapy.

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Magnetic resonance imaging of Fricke-doped agarose gels for the visualization of radiotherapy dose distributions in a lung phantom

scientific article published on 01 February 1992

Margins between clinical target volume and planning target volume for electron beam therapy

scientific article published in March 2006

Margins for treatment planning of proton therapy

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Practical aspects of implementation of helical tomotherapy for intensity-modulated and image-guided radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 29 March 2010

Prophylactic Radiotherapy against Heterotopic Ossification around Acetabular Fractures requiring Surgical Reconstruction

scientific article published on 04 September 2015

Prophylactic radiotherapy against heterotopic ossification following internal fixation of acetabular fractures: a comparative estimate of risk.

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Radiotherapy for glioma during pregnancy: fetal dose estimates, risk assessment and clinical management.

scientific article published in May 2004

Radiotherapy treatment planning with dynamic wedges--an algorithm for generating wedge factors and beam data.

scientific article published on September 1995

Random variation in rectal position during radiotherapy for prostate cancer is two to three times greater than that predicted from prostate motion.

scientific article published on 20 August 2014

Recalculation of dose for each fraction of treatment on TomoTherapy.

scientific article published on 5 January 2016

Reduction in Total Radiation Exposure Using X-ray Image Guidance Illustrated in a Patient Receiving Pituitary Radiotherapy

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

Reference dosimetry on TomoTherapy: an addendum to the 1990 UK MV dosimetry code of practice

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Relative electron density calibration of CT scanners for radiotherapy treatment planning

scientific article published on 01 August 1999

Simultaneously misleading acronyms in radiation therapy

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

Skin dose near compensating filters in radiotherapy

scientific article published on 01 June 1988

The application of dose-volume histograms to the Paris and Manchester systems of brachytherapy dosimetry

The effect of optimization on surface dose in intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT).

scientific article published in November 2004

The effect on wedge factors of scattered radiation from the wedge

scientific article published on 01 September 1994

The optimization of intensity modulated radiotherapy in cases where the planning target volume extends into the build-up region

scientific article published on 01 April 2009

The pattern evoked electroretinogram in optic neuritis. A combined psychophysical and electrophysiological study

scientific article published in June 1986

The use of carbon-loaded thermoluminescent dosimeters for the measurement of surface doses in megavoltage x-ray beams

scientific article published on 01 November 1989

The variation of wedge factors with field size on a linear accelerator

scientific article published in May 1990

Three-dimensional analysis of the respiratory interplay effect in helical tomotherapy: Baseline variations cause the greater part of dose inhomogeneities seen.

scientific article published in March 2014

Total body irradiation using a modified standing technique: a single institution 7 year experience.

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Unintended doses in radiotherapy - over, under and outside?

scientific article published on 2 January 2018