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A challenge to traditional radiation oncology.

scientific article published in November 2004

A comparison of helical tomotherapy to circular collimator-based linear-accelerator radiosurgery for the treatment of brain metastases

scientific article published on 01 August 2011

A comprehensive assessment by tumor site of patient setup using daily MVCT imaging from more than 3,800 helical tomotherapy treatments.

scientific article published on March 2009

A dosimetric analysis of tomotherapy based intensity modulated radiation therapy with and without bone marrow sparing in gynecologic malignancies

scientific article published on 10 September 2012

A generalized 2D pencil beam scaling algorithm for proton dose calculation in heterogeneous slab geometries

scientific article published on June 1, 2013

A high-precision system for conformal intracranial radiotherapy

scientific article published in July 2000

A method of scaling the 3D electron pencil-beam dose calculation to obtain accurate monitor units for irregularly-shaped electron beams

scientific article published in January 2002

A multi-institution evaluation of deformable image registration algorithms for automatic organ delineation in adaptive head and neck radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 15 June 2012

A spiral phantom for IMRT and tomotherapy treatment delivery verification

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

Accuracy of deformable image registration for contour propagation in adaptive lung radiotherapy

scientific article published on 18 October 2013

Accurate accumulation of dose for improved understanding of radiation effects in normal tissue

scientific article published on March 2010

Advanced image-guided external beam radiotherapy.

scientific article published on January 2008

An algorithm for automatic, computed-tomography-based source localization after prostate implant

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Analysis of radiation-induced liver disease using the Lyman NTCP model: in regard to Dawson et al. IJROBP 2002;53:810-821.

scientific article published in March 2004

Application of a whole-body pharmacokinetic model for targeted radionuclide therapy to NM404 and FLT.

scientific article published on 7 March 2012

Assessment of multiple task activation and reproducibility in patients with benign and low-grade neoplasm.

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Assessment of patient-independent intrinsic error for a noninvasive frame for fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy

scientific article published on 01 October 2001

Automatic registration of megavoltage to kilovoltage CT images in helical tomotherapy: an evaluation of the setup verification process for the special case of a rigid head phantom

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Beam modeling for a convolution/superposition-based treatment planning system

scientific article published in January 2002

Biological Effects Induced by Non-thermal Ultrasound and Implications for Cancer Therapy: A Review of the Current Literature

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Bragg peak prediction from quantitative proton computed tomography using different path estimates

scientific article published on January 6, 2011

Clinical assessment of three-dimensional ultrasound prostate localization for external beam radiotherapy

scientific article published on 01 December 2006

Clinical implementation of adaptive helical tomotherapy: a unique approach to image-guided intensity modulated radiotherapy.

scientific article published on October 2006

Clinical implementation of target tracking by breathing synchronized delivery

scientific article published in November 2006

Commissioning and quality assurance of an optically guided three-dimensional ultrasound target localization system for radiotherapy.

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Comparing photon and proton based hypofractioned sbrt for prostate cancer accounting for robustness and realistic treatment deliverability

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Comparison of linac based fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy and tomotherapy treatment plans for skull-base tumors.

scientific article published on 20 February 2006

Comparison of prostate IMRT and VMAT biologically optimised treatment plans

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Contouring and constraining bowel on a full-bladder computed tomography scan may not reflect treatment bowel position and dose certainty in gynecologic external beam radiation therapy

scientific article published on 20 September 2014

Day to day treatment variations of accelerated partial breast brachytherapy using a multi-lumen balloon.

scientific article published on March 2014

Design of adaptive treatment margins for non-negligible measurement uncertainty: application to ultrasound-guided prostate radiation therapy

scientific article published in January 2004

Distribution of brain metastases in relation to the hippocampus: implications for neurocognitive functional preservation

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Distribution of brain metastases: implications for non-uniform dose prescriptions.

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Does a local bystander effect necessitate a revision of TCP models that are based on observed clinical data?

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Dose calculation on kV cone beam CT images: an investigation of the Hu-density conversion stability and dose accuracy using the site-specific calibration

scientific article published on 15 July 2009

Dose escalated, hypofractionated radiotherapy using helical tomotherapy for inoperable non-small cell lung cancer: preliminary results of a risk-stratified phase I dose escalation study

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Dose escalation model for limited-stage small-cell lung cancer

scientific article published on 31 January 2009

Dose-limiting toxicity after hypofractionated dose-escalated radiotherapy in non-small-cell lung cancer

scientific article published on 21 October 2013

Dosimetric characteristics of a double-focused miniature multileaf collimator

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Dosimetric comparison of left-sided whole breast irradiation with 3DCRT, forward-planned IMRT, inverse-planned IMRT, helical tomotherapy, and topotherapy

scientific article published on 11 February 2011

Dosimetric impact of daily setup variations during treatment of canine nasal tumors using intensity-modulated radiation therapy

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Dosimetric verification of helical tomotherapy for total scalp irradiation

scientific article published on 01 November 2008

EBT2 radiochromic film for quality assurance of complex IMRT treatments of the prostate: micro-collimated IMRT, RapidArc, and TomoTherapy

scientific article published on 7 July 2011

Estimated risk of perihippocampal disease progression after hippocampal avoidance during whole-brain radiotherapy: safety profile for RTOG 0933.

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Evaluation of a fast method of EPID-based dosimetry for intensity-modulated radiation therapy.

scientific article published on 19 April 2010

Feasibility report of image guided stereotactic body radiotherapy (IG-SBRT) with tomotherapy for early stage medically inoperable lung cancer using extreme hypofractionation

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Fractionated radiotherapy for intracranial meningiomas

scientific article published on September 2010

Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy: a short review

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Gentlemen (and ladies), choose your weapons: Gamma knife vs. linear accelerator radiosurgery.

scientific article published in April 2003

Helical tomotherapy as a means of administering total or partial scalp irradiation: In regards to Bedford et al. (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2005;62:1549-1558)

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Helical tomotherapy as a means of delivering scalp-sparing whole brain radiation therapy

scientific article published in December 2005

Helical tomotherapy: image guidance and adaptive dose guidance

scientific article published on January 2007

Heterogeneity in head and neck IMRT target design and clinical practice

scientific article published on March 9, 2012

High dose per fraction dosimetry of small fields with gafchromic EBT2 film

scientific article published on 01 July 2011

Hippocampal dosimetry predicts neurocognitive function impairment after fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy for benign or low-grade adult brain tumors

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Hippocampal dosimetry predicts neurocognitive function impairment after fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy for benign or low-grade adult brain tumors

scientific article published on 01 February 2013

Hippocampal-sparing whole-brain radiotherapy: a "how-to" technique using helical tomotherapy and linear accelerator-based intensity-modulated radiotherapy

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IMRT delivery verification using a spiral phantom

scientific article published in September 2003

Image guidance for precise conformal radiotherapy

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Impact of hybrid fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography on radiotherapy planning in esophageal and non-small-cell lung cancer.

scientific article published on January 2007

Improvement in smoothness of the chewing cycle following treatment of anterior crossbite malocclusion: a case report

scientific article published in April 2004

Improvements in dose calculation accuracy for small off-axis targets in high dose per fraction tomotherapy.

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In regards to Kirby et al. "Physics strategies for sparing neural stem cells during whole-brain radiation treatments," [Med. Phys. 38, 5338 (2011)].

scientific article published in March 2012

In response to "The distribution of brain metastases in the perihippocampal region (regarding Gondi et al., Radiother. Oncol. 2010; 95: 327-331) by van Kesteren et al

scientific article published on 03 February 2011

In vivo real-time rectal wall dosimetry for prostate radiotherapy

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Independent quality assurance of a helical tomotherapy machine using the dose magnifying glass

scientific article published in April 2011

Integral radiation dose to normal structures with conformal external beam radiation

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Intensity-modulated radiation therapy in the management of head and neck cancer

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Intensity-modulated radiation therapy: emerging cancer treatment technology

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Is high-dose stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) overkill? A systematic review

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Linear accelerator radiosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia.

scientific article published on December 2005

Lung 4D-IMRT treatment planning: an evaluation of three methods applied to four-dimensional data sets.

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Methodologies for localizing loco-regional hypopharyngeal carcinoma recurrences in relation to FDG-PET positive and clinical radiation therapy target volumes

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Modelling simple helically delivered dose distributions

scientific article published on 22 March 2005

Moving from gamma passing rates to patient DVH-based QA metrics in pretreatment dose QA.

scientific article published in October 2011

Multi-institutional quantitative evaluation and clinical validation of Smart Probabilistic Image Contouring Engine (SPICE) autosegmentation of target structures and normal tissues on computer tomography images in the head and neck, thorax, liver, an

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Normal tissue dose and second cancer risk due to megavoltage fan-beam CT, static tomotherapy and helical tomotherapy in breast radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 9 July 2013

On Voxel based Iso-Tumor Control Probabilty and Iso-Complication Maps for Selective Boosting and Selective Avoidance Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy.

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On cold spots in tumor subvolumes

scientific article published in July 2002

On correlated sources of uncertainty in four dimensional computed tomography data sets.

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On proton CT reconstruction using MVCT-converted virtual proton projections

scientific article published in June 2012

On the automated definition of mobile target volumes from 4D-CT images for stereotactic body radiotherapy

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On the calculation of mean restricted collision stopping powers.

scientific article published in May 1998

On the dosimetric effect and reduction of inverse consistency and transitivity errors in deformable image registration for dose accumulation.

scientific article published in January 2012

On the estimation of the location of the hippocampus in the context of hippocampal avoidance whole brain radiotherapy treatment planning

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On the inclusion of proliferation in tumour control probability calculations for inhomogeneously irradiated tumours

scientific article published on 01 September 2003

On the incorporation of multi-modality image registration into the radiotherapy treatment planning process.

scientific article published in February 2003

On the radiobiological impact of metal artifacts in head-and-neck IMRT in terms of tumor control probability (TCP) and normal tissue complication probability (NTCP).

scientific article published on 16 June 2007

On the use of a proton path probability map for proton computed tomography reconstruction

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On the use of biomathematical models in patient-specific IMRT dose QA

scientific article published on 01 July 2013

On the use of hyperpolarized helium MRI for conformal avoidance lung radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 30 October 2009

On the use of virtual simulation in radiotherapy of the intact breast.

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On voxel-by-voxel accumulated dose for prostate radiation therapy using deformable image registration

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Optical tracking technology in stereotactic radiation therapy

scientific article published on January 2007

Optically guided intensity modulated radiotherapy

scientific article published in October 2001

Optically guided patient positioning techniques

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Pelvic nodal dose escalation with prostate hypofractionation using conformal avoidance defined (H-CAD) intensity modulated radiation therapy

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Per-beam, planar IMRT QA passing rates do not predict clinically relevant patient dose errors.

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Phase I trial of pelvic nodal dose escalation with hypofractionated IMRT for high-risk prostate cancer.

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Point/counterpoint: it is not appropriate to "deform" dose along with deformable image registration in adaptive radiotherapy

scientific article published in November 2012

Potential for radiation therapy technology innovations to permit dose escalation for non-small-cell lung cancer

scientific article published in September 2005

Practice-based evidence to evidence-based practice: building the National Radiation Oncology Registry.

scientific article published on May 2013

Precautions in the use of intensity-modulated radiation therapy.

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Preservation of memory with conformal avoidance of the hippocampal neural stem-cell compartment during whole-brain radiotherapy for brain metastases (RTOG 0933): a phase II multi-institutional trial

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Prophylactic cranial irradiation: recent outcomes and innovations

scientific article published in May 2014

Pulsed reduced dose-rate radiotherapy: a novel locoregional retreatment strategy for breast cancer recurrence in the previously irradiated chest wall, axilla, or supraclavicular region

scientific article published on 4 April 2008

Pulsed reduced dose-rate radiotherapy: case report : a novel re-treatment strategy in the management of recurrent glioblastoma multiforme

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Quality assurance device for four-dimensional IMRT or SBRT and respiratory gating using patient-specific intrafraction motion kernels.

scientific article published on 17 September 2007

Quality assurance for nonradiographic radiotherapy localization and positioning systems: report of Task Group 147.

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Quality assurance of U.S.-guided external beam radiotherapy for prostate cancer: report of AAPM Task Group 154.

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Quality assurance of a helical tomotherapy machine

scientific article published in July 2004

Quality assurance of an image guided intracranial stereotactic positioning system

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Quality assurance of an image guided intracranial stereotactic positioning system for radiosurgery treatment with helical tomotherapy

scientific article published on 27 May 2010

Quality assurance of ultrasound imaging systems for target localization and online setup corrections

scientific article published in January 2008

Radiation oncology advances: an introduction

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Radiation techniques in neuro-oncology

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Radiobiological and treatment planning study of a simultaneously integrated boost for canine nasal tumors using helical tomotherapy

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Radiotherapy for brain tumors.

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Rectal dose sparing with a balloon catheter and ultrasound localization in conformal radiation therapy for prostate cancer

scientific article published on 01 June 2003

Reduction in radiation dose to lung and other normal tissues using helical tomotherapy to treat lung cancer, in comparison to conventional field arrangements.

scientific article published on February 2003

Reirradiation of glioblastoma through the use of a reduced dose rate on a tomotherapy unit.

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Reirradiation of large-volume recurrent glioma with pulsed reduced-dose-rate radiotherapy

scientific article published on 14 May 2010

Response to “Comment on ‘It is not appropriate to “deform” dose along with deformable image registration in adaptive radiotherapy’” [Med. Phys. 39, 6531–6533 (2012)]

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

Risk-adaptive volumetric modulated arc therapy using biological objective functions for subvolume boosting in radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 27 June 2012

Selective boosting of tumor subvolumes

scientific article published in September 2000

Single institution experience treating 104 vestibular schwannomas with fractionated stereotactic radiation therapy or stereotactic radiosurgery

scientific article published on 20 October 2013

Step and shoot IMRT to mobile targets and techniques to mitigate the interplay effect.

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Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Early-Stage Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Report of the ASTRO Emerging Technology Committee

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Stereotactic body radiation therapy in non-small-cell lung cancer: linking radiobiological modeling and clinical outcome

scientific article published on August 2011

Stereotactic body radiation therapy: the report of AAPM Task Group 101.

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Stereotactic body radiotherapy for primary management of early-stage, low- to intermediate-risk prostate cancer: report of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology Emerging Technology Committee.

scientific article published on April 2010

The biological effectiveness of targeted radionuclide therapy based on a whole-body pharmacokinetic model

scientific article published on September 8, 2010

The effect of fraction time in intensity modulated radiotherapy: theoretical and experimental evaluation of an optimization problem (the real conclusions): in regard to Mu et al. Radiotherapy on Oncology 2003; 68: 181-87.

scientific article published in July 2004

The effect on dose accumulation accuracy of inverse-consistency and transitivity error reduced deformation maps

scientific article published on 21 March 2014

The impact of daily setup variations on head-and-neck intensity-modulated radiation therapy

scientific article published in March 2005

The impact of daily shifts on prostate IMRT dose distributions

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

The impact of dental metal artifacts on head and neck IMRT dose distributions

scientific article published on 4 May 2006

The impact of hybrid PET-CT scan on overall oncologic management, with a focus on radiotherapy planning: a prospective, blinded study.

scientific article published in April 2009

The potential for an enhanced role for MRI in radiation-therapy treatment planning

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The utilization of consistency metrics for error analysis in deformable image registration

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Therapeutic rather than diagnostic medical physicists should lead the development and clinical implementation of image‐guided nonionizing therapeutic modalities such as MR‐guided high‐intensity ultrasound

scientific article published on March 1, 2013

Time series analyses of breathing patterns of lung cancer patients using nonlinear dynamical system theory.

scientific article published on 9 March 2011

Tomotherapy and other innovative IMRT delivery systems

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Total scalp irradiation using helical tomotherapy

scientific article published in September 2005

Tumor volume changes on serial imaging with megavoltage CT for non-small-cell lung cancer during intensity-modulated radiotherapy: how reliable, consistent, and meaningful is the effect?

scientific article published on 12 July 2006

Universal survival curve and single fraction equivalent dose: useful tools in understanding potency of ablative radiotherapy: in regard to Parks et al. (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2008;70:847-852)

scientific article published on 01 December 2008

Universal survival curve and single fraction equivalent dose: useful tools in understanding potency of ablative radiotherapy: in regard to Parks et al. (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2008;72:1620-1621).

scientific article published in March 2009

Variations in the Contouring of Organs at Risk: Test Case From a Patient With Oropharyngeal Cancer

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Who benefits from adjuvant radiation therapy for gastric cancer? A meta-analysis

scientific article published on 20 March 2013

Whole brain radiotherapy with hippocampal avoidance and simultaneously integrated brain metastases boost: a planning study

scientific article published on October 2007

Why avoid the hippocampus? A comprehensive review

scientific article published on October 20, 2010