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3D delivered dose assessment using a 4DCT-based motion model.

scientific article published on June 2015

4D cone beam CT-based dose assessment for SBRT lung cancer treatment.

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

A low Z linac and flat panel imager: comparison with the conventional imaging approach.

scientific article published on 20 October 2008

A mass-conserving 4D XCAT phantom for dose calculation and accumulation

scientific article published on July 2013

A maximum likelihood method for high resolution proton radiography/proton CT.

scientific article published on 3 November 2016

A modification of flattening filter free linac for IMRT

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

A quantitative study of IMRT delivery effects in commercial planning systems for the case of oesophagus and prostate tumours

scientific article published in May 2006

A simulation study on proton computed tomography (CT) stopping power accuracy using dual energy CT scans as benchmark.

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

A theoretical framework to predict the most likely ion path in particle imaging ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 January 2017

Advanced Multimodal Methods for Cranial Pseudo-CT Generation Validated by IMRT and VMAT Radiation Therapy Plans

scientific article published on 30 June 2018

Amorphous silicon EPID calibration for dosimetric applications: comparison of a method based on Monte Carlo prediction of response with existing techniques

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An Overview of Lipid Droplets in Cancer and Cancer Stem Cells

scientific article published on 13 August 2017

An investigation of dose calculation accuracy in intensity-modulated radiotherapy of sites in the head & neck.

scientific article published in July 2006

An optimization algorithm that incorporates IMRT delivery constraints.

scientific article published in March 2002

Analysis of stochastic noise in intensity-modulated beams.

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Analysis of the effects of the delivery technique on an IMRT plan: comparison for multiple static field, dynamic and NOMOS MIMiC collimation

scientific article published on 01 December 2001

Assessing the effect of electron density in photon dose calculations

scientific article published in February 2006

Automated Monte Carlo Simulation of Proton Therapy Treatment Plans

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Breathing interplay effects during proton beam scanning: simulation and statistical analysis.

scientific article published on 23 June 2009

CT metal artifact reduction method correcting for beam hardening and missing projections

scientific article published on 18 April 2012

CeBr3 scintillators for 4 He prompt gamma spectroscopy: results from a Monte-Carlo optimization study.

scientific article published on 7 February 2018

Characterizing the modulation transfer function (MTF) of proton/carbon radiography using Monte Carlo simulations

scientific article published on 01 September 2013

Combinational use of conformal and intensity-modulated beams in radiotherapy planning

scientific article published on June 2003

Combined influence of CT random noise and HU-RSP calibration curve nonlinearities on proton range systematic errors

scientific article published on 17 August 2017

Comparative study of a low-Z cone-beam computed tomography system.

scientific article published on 30 June 2011

Comparison of out-of-field photon doses in 6 MV IMRT and neutron doses in proton therapy for adult and pediatric patients

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Comparison of the suitability of CBCT- and MR-based synthetic CTs for daily adaptive proton therapy in head and neck patients

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

Contrast-enhanced proton radiography for patient set-up by using x-ray CT prior knowledge.

scientific article published on 23 August 2014

Conversion of CT numbers into tissue parameters for Monte Carlo dose calculations: a multi-centre study.

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Deriving effective atomic numbers from DECT based on a parameterization of the ratio of high and low linear attenuation coefficients

scientific article published on 11 September 2013

Design and testing of a simulation framework for dosimetric motion studies integrating an anthropomorphic computational phantom into four-dimensional Monte Carlo.

scientific article published on December 2008

Design optimization of a pixel-based range telescope for proton computed tomography

scientific article published on 06 June 2019

Developing a phenomenological model of the proton trajectory within a heterogeneous medium required for proton imaging

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Dose assessment for the fetus considering scattered and secondary radiation from photon and proton therapy when treating a brain tumor of the mother

scientific article published on 30 December 2015

Dosimetric accuracy of proton therapy for chordoma patients with titanium implants

scientific article published in July 2013

Dosimetric assessment of a novel metal artifact reduction method in CT images

scientific article published on 7 January 2013

Dosimetric impact of motion in free-breathing and gated lung radiotherapy: a 4D Monte Carlo study of intrafraction and interfraction effects

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Dosimetry robustness with stochastic optimization

scientific article published on 13 May 2009

Effects of Hounsfield number conversion on CT based proton Monte Carlo dose calculations

scientific article published on April 2007

Effects of organ motion on IMRT treatments with segments of few monitor units

scientific article published on March 2007

Electron dosimetry of angular fields

scientific article published on 15 February 2007

Energy- and time-resolved detection of prompt gamma-rays for proton range verification

scientific article published on 27 September 2013

Erratum: "Assessing the effect of electron density in photon dose calculations".

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Evaluating Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy Relative to Passive Scattering Proton Therapy for Increased Vertebral Column Sparing in Craniospinal Irradiation in Growing Pediatric Patients.

scientific article published in February 2017

Evaluation of two methods of predicting MLC leaf positions using EPID measurements

scientific article published in September 2006

Extension of the Fermi-Eyges most-likely path in heterogeneous medium with prior knowledge information.

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Extension of the NCAT phantom for the investigation of intra-fraction respiratory motion in IMRT using 4D Monte Carlo

scientific article published on 16 February 2010

Feasibility study of in vivo MRI based dosimetric verification of proton end-of-range for liver cancer patients.

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Golden beam data for proton pencil-beam scanning

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Head-and-neck IMRT treatments assessed with a Monte Carlo dose calculation engine.

scientific article published on 17 February 2005

Helium CT: Monte Carlo simulation results for an ideal source and detector with comparison to proton CT

scientific article published on 20 May 2018

Imaging in particle therapy: State of the art and future perspective

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Improving single-event proton CT by removing nuclear interaction events within the energy/range detector

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

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

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Increasing maximum tumor dose to manage range uncertainties in IMPT treatment planning.

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Inter-comparison of relative stopping power estimation models for proton therapy.

scientific article published on 26 October 2016

Inter-patient variations of radiation-induced normal-tissue changes in Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced hepatic MRI scans during fractionated proton therapy

scientific article published on 26 April 2019

Ion radiography as a tool for patient set-up and image guided particle therapy: a Monte Carlo study.

scientific article published on 24 June 2013

Iron and copper complexes with antioxidant activity as inhibitors of the metastatic potential of glioma cells

scientific article published on 30 March 2020

Kilovoltage energy imaging with a radiotherapy linac with a continuously variable energy range.

scientific article published in March 2012

MO-A-213AB-06: Validation of Nuclear Reaction Models to Simulate Proton Therapy Range Verification Using Prompt Gamma-Rays

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

Monte Carlo and Lambertian light guide models of the light output from scintillation crystals at megavoltage energies

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Monte Carlo modelling of a-Si EPID response: the effect of spectral variations with field size and position

scientific article published in December 2006

Motion management with phase-adapted 4D-optimization.

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Numerical solutions of the γ-index in two and three dimensions

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Pre-treatment patient-specific stopping power by combining list-mode proton radiography and x-ray CT.

scientific article published on 28 June 2017

Proof of principle study of the use of a CMOS active pixel sensor for proton radiography.

scientific article published in February 2011

Proton SBRT for medically inoperable stage I NSCLC.

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Proton arc reduces range uncertainty effects and improves conformality compared with photon volumetric modulated arc therapy in stereotactic body radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer

scientific article published on 01 September 2013

Proton radiography in three dimensions: a proof of principle of a new technique.

scientific article published in October 2013

Proton range shift analysis on brain pseudo-CT generated from T1 and T2 MR

scientific article published on 29 May 2018

Proton range verification through prompt gamma-ray spectroscopy

scientific article published on 3 November 2014

Radiation-induced changes in hepatocyte-specific Gd-EOB-DTPA enhanced MRI: potential mechanism

scientific article published on 11 August 2014

Range verification of passively scattered proton beams using prompt gamma-ray detection.

scientific article published on 14 January 2015

Results from the experimental evaluation of CeBr 3 scintillators for 4 He prompt gamma spectroscopy

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Review on the characteristics of radiation detectors for dosimetry and imaging

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SU-E-I-111: Evaluation of the Analytical Scattering Models of 1) Lynch-Dahl 2) Highland and 3) Rossi for Proton Beams and Comparison with GEANT4 Monte Carlo Simulations as a Prerequisite for Proton Radiography Applications for Patients

scientific article published on June 2012

SU-E-I-97: Characterizing the Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) of Proton Radiography

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

SU-F-J-204: Carbon Digitally Reconstructed Radiography (CDRR): A GPU Based Tool for Fast and Versatile Carbonimaging Simulation

scientific article published on 01 June 2016

Scan path optimization with/without clustering for active beam delivery in charged particle therapy

scientific article published on 20 January 2015

Sensitivity study of proton radiography and comparison with kV and MV x-ray imaging using GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulations

scientific article published on 22 March 2011

Simulation of dosimetric consequences of 4D-CT-based motion margin estimation for proton radiotherapy using patient tumor motion data

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Simulation of prompt gamma-ray emission during proton radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 3 August 2012

Simulations using patient data to evaluate systematic errors that may occur in 4D treatment planning: a proof of concept study

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TU-FG-BRB-04: A New Optimization Method for Pre-Treatment Patient-Specific Stopping-Power by Combining Proton Radiography and X-Ray CT.

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The image quality of ion computed tomography at clinical imaging dose levels.

scientific article published in November 2014

The impact of low-Z and high-Z metal implants in IMRT: a Monte Carlo study of dose inaccuracies in commercial dose algorithms

scientific article published in January 2014

The susceptibility of IMRT dose distributions to intrafraction organ motion: an investigation into smoothing filters derived from four dimensional computed tomography data

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Tissue decomposition from dual energy CT data for MC based dose calculation in particle therapy

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Treatment of non-small cell lung cancer patients with proton beam-based stereotactic body radiotherapy: dosimetric comparison with photon plans highlights importance of range uncertainty

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Use of a realistic breathing lung phantom to evaluate dose delivery errors.

scientific article published in November 2010

WE-G-BRB-06: Real-Time Radiation Field Tracking Using Long Scintillating Fibers.

scientific article published in June 2012

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