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List of works by Colin G Orton

A brief history of the AAPM: Celebrating 60 years of contributions to medical physics practice and science

scientific article published in February 2018

A method to avoid misadministrations in high dose rate brachytherapy

scientific article published on 01 February 1997

All graduate medical physics programs should have an original research component

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Authorization to practice as a medical physicist is sometimes better achieved by registration rather than licensure

scientific article published on 01 August 2010

Bright young physicists should be advised to avoid careers in radiation therapy

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

Definition of T in the NSD equation ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 1974

EPID dosimetry must soon become an essential component of IMRT quality assurance

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

EPID-based daily quality assurance of linear accelerators will likely replace other methods within the next ten years.

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Experience with a practical hyperfractionated accelerated radiotherapy regime

High and Low Dose-rate Brachytherapy for Cervical Carcinoma

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

High dose rate versus low dose rate brachytherapy for gynecological cancer

scientific article published on 01 October 1993

Hypofractionation is a proven safe and effective modality for postoperative whole-breast radiotherapy for early breast cancer patients

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

IMRT should not be administered at photon energies greater than 10MV

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

Image-guided radiotherapy is being overvalued as a clinical tool in radiation oncology

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

Implanted fiducial markers are no longer needed for prostate cancer radiotherapy

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

In the era of IGRT and small- and focal-field external beam radiotherapy, brachytherapy is a dying modality

scientific article published on 16 January 2017

It is STILL necessary to validate each individual IMRT treatment plan with dosimetric measurements before delivery

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

Medical Physics residency programs in nonacademic facilities should affiliate themselves with a university-based program ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Models in radiotherapy: volume effects.

scientific article published in July 1983

Patient-specific QA for IMRT should be performed using software rather than hardware methods

scientific article published on 01 July 2013

Physicists who are responsible for high-tech radiotherapy procedures should have to be specially credentialed

scientific article published on 01 December 2012

Point/Counterpoint. Exposure tracking for x-ray imaging is a bad idea

scientific article published in January 2014

Point/Counterpoint. Kilovoltage imaging is more suitable than megavoltage imaging for guiding radiation therapy

scientific article published in December 2007

Point/counterpoint. Helical tomotherapy will ultimately replace linear accelerator based IMRT as the best way to deliver conformal radiotherapy

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Point/counterpoint. Medical physics should adopt double-blind peer review of all manuscripts

scientific article published in October 2010

Point/counterpoint. Radiation therapists should not have to wear personnel dosimetry badges.

scientific article published in June 2010

Point/counterpoint. Radiotherapy is an appropriate treatment to consider for patients infected with the Ebola virus

scientific article published on March 2015

Point/counterpoint. Resolution modeling enhances PET imaging.

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Point/counterpoint. Respiratory gating for radiation therapy is not ready for prime time

scientific article published in March 2007

Point/counterpoint. Segmental MLC is superior to dynamic MLC for IMRT delivery.

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Point/counterpoint. Within the next five years CT colonography will make conventional colonoscopy obsolete for colon cancer screening.

scientific article published on August 2006

Preliminary results of a hyperfractionated dose escalation study for locally advanced adenocarcinoma of the prostate

scientific article published on 01 June 1993

Proton therapy is the best radiation treatment modality for prostate cancer

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Proton therapy is too expensive for the minimal potential improvements in outcome claimed

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Pulsed brachytherapy: a formalism to account for the variation in dose rate of the stepping source.

scientific article published in February 1999

Radiochromic film is superior to ion chamber arrays for IMRT quality assurance

scientific article published on 01 March 2010

Radiomics in lung cancer: Its time is here.

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

Separating Output Factor into Collimator Factor and Phantom Scatter Factor for Megavoltage Photon Calculations

scientific article published on 01 March 1988

Simultaneous PET/MR will replace PET/CT as the molecular multimodality imaging platform of choice

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

Surface effects of high-energy X rays at oblique incidence

scientific article published on 01 November 1971

Survival and complications in Stage I carcinoma of corpus uteri receiving post-operative irradiation

scientific article published on 01 August 1988

The adoption of new technology in radiation oncology should rely on evidence-based medicine

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The best radiotherapy for the treatment of prostate cancer involves hypofractionation

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

The linear-quadratic model is inappropriate to model high dose per fraction effects in radiosurgery

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The proposed MOC requirements for physicists are reasonable

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

The title “radiation oncology physicist” should be changed to “oncologic physicist”

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The use of bismuth breast shields for CT should be discouraged

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

The use of effective dose for medical procedures is inappropriate

scientific article published on 01 July 2010

Thermoradiotherapy is underutilized for the treatment of cancer

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

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