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(Radio)biological optimization of external-beam radiotherapy

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4D radiobiological modelling of the interplay effect in conventionally and hypofractionated lung tumour IMRT.

scientific article published on 24 September 2014

A Monte Carlo study of the quality dependence factors of common TLD materials in photon and electron beams

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

A Monte Carlo study of the quality dependence of diamond thermoluminescent dosimeters in radiotherapy beams

scientific article published on 01 October 1997

A comparison of conventional and conformal radiotherapy of the oesophagus: work in progress

scientific article published on 01 October 1998

A comparison of proton and megavoltage X-ray treatment planning for prostate cancer

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A cylindrical model of the rectum: comparing dose-volume, dose-surface and dose-wall histograms in the radiotherapy of prostate cancer

scientific article published on 01 August 2003

A detailed re-evaluation of Clambda and Ce with application to ferrous sulphate G-values

scientific article published in September 1978

A model for calculating tumour control probability in radiotherapy including the effects of inhomogeneous distributions of dose and clonogenic cell density

scientific article published in June 1993

Accuracy of pelvic radiotherapy: prospective analysis of 90 patients in a randomised trial of blocked versus standard radiotherapy.

scientific article published on April 1996

Addendum to the IPEMB code of practice for the determination of absorbed dose for x-rays below 300 kV generating potential (0.035 mm Al-4 mm Cu HVL).

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An EGS4 Monte Carlo examination of general cavity theory

scientific article published in July 1997

An NTCP Analysis of Urethral Complications from Low Doserate Mono- and Bi-Radionuclide Brachytherapy.

scientific article published on 06 July 2011

An analysis of the relationship between radiosensitivity and volume effects in tumor control probability modeling

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

An experimental evaluation of recent electron dosimetry codes of practice

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

An investigation of the response of a simple design of plane-parallel chamber

scientific article published on 01 October 1994

Analytical investigation of the possibility of parameter invariant TCP-based radiation therapy plan ranking

scientific article published in November 2010

BIOPLAN: software for the biological evaluation of. Radiotherapy treatment plans

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Backscatter towards the monitor ion chamber in high-energy photon and electron beams: charge integration versus Monte Carlo simulation

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

Benefits expected from simple conformal radiotherapy in the treatment of pelvic tumours.

scientific article published in September 1988

Bragg-Gray theory and ion chamber dosimetry for photon beams

scientific article published in April 1991

Breakdown of Bragg-Gray behaviour for low-density detectors under electronic disequilibrium conditions in small megavoltage photon fields

scientific article published on 6 October 2015

Calculated response and wall correction factors for ionization chambers exposed to 60Co gamma rays

scientific article published on 01 November 1982

Calculation of absorbed dose ratios using correlated Monte Carlo sampling

scientific article published on 01 July 1993

Calculations of ion chamber displacement effect corrections for medium-energy x-ray dosimetry

scientific article published in January 1995

Cancer therapy combining high-intensity focused ultrasound and megavoltage radiation.

scientific article published on 28 May 2014

Chamber-dependent wall correction factors in dosimetry

scientific article published in November 1986

Characterizing the influence of detector density on dosimeter response in non-equilibrium small photon fields.

scientific article published on 22 June 2012

Comment on "Simulating Radiotherapy Effect in High-Grade Glioma by Using Diffusive Modeling and Brain Atlases"

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Comparison of proton therapy and conformal X-ray therapy in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

scientific article published on 01 November 1999

Comparison of radiation side-effects of conformal and conventional radiotherapy in prostate cancer: a randomised trial

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Concerning Roberts and Hendry IJROBP 1998;41:689-699

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

Concerning comparisons of electron beam absorbed dose measurements in water and polystyrene

scientific article published on 01 January 1984

Condensed-history Monte-Carlo simulation for charged particles: what can it do for us?

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Conformal radiotherapy at the Royal Marsden Hospital (UK).

scientific article published on January 1994

Conformal radiotherapy of the pelvis: assessment of acute toxicity

scientific article published on 01 November 1993

Converting absorbed dose to medium to absorbed dose to water for Monte Carlo based photon beam dose calculations.

scientific article published in April 2000

Correlations between dose-surface histograms and the incidence of long-term rectal bleeding following conformal or conventional radiotherapy treatment of prostate cancer

scientific article published in February 2001

Dose conversion and wall correction factors for Fricke dosimetry in high-energy photon beams: analytical model and Monte Carlo calculations

scientific article published in January 1993

Dose-volume and biological-model based comparison between helical tomotherapy and (inverse-planned) IMAT for prostate tumours

scientific article published on 07 April 2008

Dosimetric response of variable-size cavities in photon-irradiated media and the behaviour of the Spencer-Attix cavity integral with increasing Δ.

scientific article published on 15 March 2016

Dosimetric verification of IMAT delivery with a conventional EPID system and a commercial portal dose image prediction tool

scientific article published in January 2010

Early mucosal reactions during and after head-and-neck radiotherapy: dependence of treatment tolerance on radiation dose and schedule duration

scientific article published in June 2008

Effective mass stopping power ratio in photon dosimetry

scientific article published on March 1979

Effects of cellular repair and proliferation on targeted radionuclide therapy: a modelling study

scientific article published on 01 April 2000

Electron fluence perturbation correction factors for solid state detectors irradiated in megavoltage electron beams.

scientific article published in February 2000

Fast and high temperature hyperthermia coupled with radiotherapy as a possible new treatment for glioblastoma.

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Fixed 3.7-GBq 131I Activity for Metastatic Thyroid Cancer Therapy Ignores Science and History

scientific article published on 06 April 2017

Fractionation in normal tissues: the (α/β)eff concept can account for dose heterogeneity and volume effects

scientific article published on 13 September 2013

High-intensity focused ultrasound plus concomitant radiotherapy: a new weapon in oncology?

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IMAT-SIM: a new method for the clinical dosimetry of intensity-modulated arc therapy (IMAT).

scientific article published in July 2007

Impact of dose-distribution uncertainties on rectal ntcp modeling. I: Uncertainty estimates

scientific article published on 01 April 2001

Impact of microscopic disease extension, extra-CTV tumour islets, incidental dose and dose conformity on tumour control probability

scientific article published on 11 May 2016

Impact of schedule duration on head and neck radiotherapy: accelerated tumor repopulation versus compensatory mucosal proliferation

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Inconsistency in derivation of C-lambda and CE.

scientific article published in September 1976

Incorporating biologic measurements (SF2, CFE) into a tumor control probability model increases their prognostic significance: a study in cervical carcinoma treated with radiation therapy

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Incorporating clinical measurements of hypoxia into tumor local control modeling of prostate cancer: implications for the alpha/beta ratio.

scientific article published in October 2003

Incorporation of a combinatorial geometry package and improved scoring capabilities in the EGSnrc Monte Carlo Code system.

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Individualization of dose prescription based on normal-tissue dose-volume and radiosensitivity data.

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Influence of dose calculation algorithms on isotoxic dose-escalation of non-small cell lung cancer radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 7 September 2010

Intensity modulated radiation therapy using laser-accelerated protons: a Monte Carlo dosimetric study

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Is the alpha-beta ratio of prostate cancer really low? A prospective, non-randomized trial comparing standard and hyperfractionated conformal radiation therapy

scientific article published on 18 April 2005

Letter regarding Meade et al. entitled "Models of acute mucosal tolerance to radiotherapy alone applied to synchronous chemo-radiation schedules in head and neck cancer"

scientific article published on 28 November 2014

Long-term biochemical control of prostate cancer after standard or hyper-fractionation: evidence for different outcomes between low-intermediate and high risk patients.

scientific article published on 26 August 2011

Loss of local control due to tumor displacement as a function of margin size, dose-response slope, and number of fractions.

scientific article published in April 2013

Mechanistic modelling of radiotherapy-induced lung toxicity ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2012

Mechanistic simulation of normal-tissue damage in radiotherapy--implications for dose-volume analyses

scientific article published on 19 March 2010

Memorandum from the Institute of Physical Sciences in Medicine. Back-scatter and F-factors for low- and medium-energy X-ray beams in radiotherapy. Working Party of the Institute of Physical Sciences in Medicine

scientific article published on 01 September 1991

Microdosimetry and radiocurability: modelling targeted therapy with beta-emitters

scientific article published on October 1996

Modelling the radiotherapy effect in the reaction-diffusion equation

scientific article published on 30 August 2016

Monte Carlo calculated stem effect correction for NE2561 and NE2571 chambers in medium-energy x-ray beams

scientific article published in January 1995

Monte Carlo calculation of output factors for circular, rectangular, and square fields of electron accelerators (6-20 MeV)

scientific article published on 01 June 2001

Monte Carlo dose calculations and radiobiological modelling: analysis of the effect of the statistical noise of the dose distribution on the probability of tumour control

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Monte Carlo dosimetry for the Papillon P50 contact radiotherapy and IORT device

scientific article published on 26 November 2013

Monte Carlo modelling of radiotherapy kV x-ray units

scientific article published in July 1999

Monte-Carlo-derived insights into dose-kerma-collision kerma inter-relationships for 50 keV-25 MeV photon beams in water, aluminum and copper

scientific article published on 30 December 2014

Normal-tissue effects in radiotherapy: physics meets biology. Report on a workshop held at Hartsfield Manor, Betchworth, Surrey, UK, 14-16 July 1997

scientific article published on 01 March 1998

On differences in radiosensitivity estimation: TCP experiments versus survival curves. A theoretical study

scientific article published on 28 July 2015

Optimal dose and fraction number in SBRT of lung tumours: A radiobiological analysis.

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

Optimization of accelerator target and detector for portal imaging using Monte Carlo simulation and experiment

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

Optimizing collimator margins for isotoxically dose-escalated conformal radiation therapy of non-small cell lung cancer

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Perturbation effects in dosimetry: Part I. Kilovoltage x-rays and electrons.

scientific article published on September 1996

Photon fluence perturbation correction factors for solid state detectors irradiated in kilovoltage photon beams

scientific article published on 01 February 2000

Prospects for proton-beam radiotherapy.

scientific article published on January 1994

Prostate Dose-painting Radiotherapy and Radiobiological Guided Optimisation Enhances the Therapeutic Ratio.

scientific article published on 15 October 2015

Radiobiologically guided optimisation of the prescription dose and fractionation scheme in radiotherapy using BioSuite.

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Regarding, Wu, Chua, Sham et al, IJROBP 37(4):913-920; 1997

scientific article published on 01 March 1998

Secondary bremsstrahlung and the energy-conservation aspects of kerma in photon-irradiated media.

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Series model volume effects in a population of non-identical patients: how low is low?

scientific article published on 01 July 2001

Severe hypofractionation: non-homogeneous tumour dose delivery can counteract tumour hypoxia.

scientific article published on 25 May 2010

Stereotactic radiotherapy of irregular targets: a comparison between static conformal beams and non-coplanar arcs

scientific article published on 01 September 1993

Stopping-power ratio for a photon spectrum as a weighted sum of the values for monoenergetic photon beams

TCP modelling - why is it important?

scientific article published on 01 November 2010

The IPEM code of practice for electron dosimetry for radiotherapy beams of initial energy from 4 to 25 MeV based on an absorbed dose to water calibration

scientific article published in September 2003

The Royal Marsden Hospital pelvic radiotherapy trial: technical aspects and quality assurance

scientific article published on 01 November 1993

The best radiotherapy for the treatment of prostate cancer involves hypofractionation

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

The delta-TCP concept: a clinically useful measure of tumor control probability

scientific article published in May 1999

The effect of different lung densities on the accuracy of various radiotherapy dose calculation methods: implications for tumour coverage

scientific article published on 16 March 2009

The energy correction factor of LiF thermoluminescent dosemeters in megavoltage electron beams: Monte Carlo simulations and experiments

scientific article published on 01 June 1996

The impact of hypofractionation on simultaneous dose-boosting to hypoxic tumor subvolumes.

scientific article published in November 2006

The performance of normal-tissue complication probability models in the presence of confounding factors

scientific article published on 01 May 2015

The quality dependence of LiF TLD in megavoltage photon beams: Monte Carlo simulation and experiments

scientific article published on 01 March 1996

The radiobiology of hypofractionation.

scientific article published on 18 March 2015

The use and QA of biologically related models for treatment planning: short report of the TG-166 of the therapy physics committee of the AAPM.

scientific article published on March 2012

Twenty Fraction Prostate Radiotherapy with Intra-prostatic Boost: Results of a Pilot Study

scientific article published on 29 September 2016

Using a Monte Carlo model to predict dosimetric properties of small radiotherapy photon fields

scientific article published on October 2008

Using cavity theory to describe the dependence on detector density of dosimeter response in non-equilibrium small fields

scientific article published on 11 April 2013

Wall-correction and absorbed-dose conversion factors for Fricke dosimetry: Monte Carlo calculations and measurements

scientific article published on 01 March 1993

Water/air mass stopping power ratios for megavoltage photon and electron beams

scientific article published on January 1978

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