List of works by Claudio Fiorino

11C-Choline PET/CT as a guide to radiation treatment planning of lymph-node relapses in prostate cancer patients

scientific article published on 06 March 2014

9th Congress of the Associazione Italiana di Fisica Medica, Perugia 25-28 February 2016, "Continuity and evolution in medical physics"

scientific article published on 01 December 2016

A Comparative Evaluation of 3 Different Free-Form Deformable Image Registration and Contour Propagation Methods for Head and Neck MRI: The Case of Parotid Changes During Radiotherapy

scientific article published on January 2017

A TCP-based early regression index predicts the pathological response in neo-adjuvant radio-chemotherapy of rectal cancer

scientific article published on 29 June 2018

A reappraisal of the role of vesicourethral anastomosis biopsy in patient candidates for salvage radiation therapy after radical prostatectomy

scientific article published on 21 December 2006

A two-variable linear model of parotid shrinkage during IMRT for head and neck cancer.

scientific article published in February 2010

Accuracy of dose calculation algorithms for static and rotational IMRT of lung cancer: A phantom study.

scientific article published on 20 March 2015

Accurate outcome prediction after neo-adjuvant radio-chemotherapy for rectal cancer based on a TCP-based early regression index

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Agreement criteria between expected and measured field fluences in IMRT of head and neck cancer: the importance and use of the gamma histograms statistical analysis

scientific article published on 05 November 2007

An automatic contour propagation method to follow parotid gland deformation during head-and-neck cancer tomotherapy.

scientific article published on 14 January 2011

An automatic deformable registration method to evaluate parotid glands shrinkage during radiotherapy treatment in Tomotherapy.

scientific article published in January 2009

Analysis of serial CT images for studying the RT effects in head-neck cancer patients.

scientific article published in August 2015

Anatomic variations due to radical prostatectomy. Impact on target volume definition and dose-volume parameters of rectum and bladder.

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Anatomical and clinical predictors of acute bowel toxicity in whole pelvis irradiation for prostate cancer with Tomotherapy

scientific article published on 22 August 2011

Assessing the Optimal Timing for Early Salvage Radiation Therapy in Patients with Prostate-specific Antigen Rise After Radical Prostatectomy.

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Assessment and clinical validation of margins for adaptive simultaneous integrated boost in neo-adjuvant radiochemotherapy for rectal cancer.

scientific article published on 10 January 2015

Baseline status and dose to the penile bulb predict impotence 1 year after radiotherapy for prostate cancer

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Biological optimization of simultaneous boost on intra-prostatic lesions (DILs): sensitivity to TCP parameters.

scientific article published on 25 October 2012

Bladder dose-surface maps and urinary toxicity: Robustness with respect to motion in assessing local dose effects.

scientific article published in March 2016

Bladder spatial-dose descriptors correlate with acute urinary toxicity after radiation therapy for prostate cancer.

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Characterisation of rectal motion during neo-adjuvant radiochemotherapy for rectal cancer with image-guided tomotherapy: implications for adaptive dose escalation strategies.

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Characterization of volume and shape modifications of PET-positive nodes during Tomotherapy for head and neck cancer as assessed by MVCTs.

scientific article published on 20 March 2015

Clinical and dosimetric predictors of late rectal syndrome after 3D-CRT for localized prostate cancer: preliminary results of a multicenter prospective study.

scientific article published on 19 September 2007

Clinical and dosimetric predictors of late rectal toxicity after conformal radiation for localized prostate cancer: Results of a large multicenter observational study

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Clinical factors predicting late severe urinary toxicity after postoperative radiotherapy for prostate carcinoma: a single-institute analysis of 742 patients.

scientific article published on 23 November 2010

Clinical implementation of Knowledge-based (KB) automatic plan optimization for Helical Tomotherapy

scientific article published on 08 October 2020

Comparing 3DCRT and inversely optimized IMRT planning for head and neck cancer: equivalence between step-and-shoot and sliding window techniques.

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Comprehensive Intra-Institution stepping validation of knowledge-based models for automatic plan optimization

scientific article published on 10 December 2018

Contouring variability of the penile bulb on CT images: quantitative assessment using a generalized concordance index.

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Correlation between surrogates of bladder dosimetry and dose-volume histograms of the bladder wall defined on MRI in prostate cancer radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 22 November 2012

Could early tumour volume changes assessed on morphological MRI predict the response to chemoradiation therapy in locally-advanced rectal cancer?

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Could perfusion heterogeneity at dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI be used to predict rectal cancer sensitivity to chemoradiotherapy?

scientific article published on 17 July 2018

Ct radiomic features of pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (panNEN) are robust against delineation uncertainty

scientific article published on 18 December 2018

Daily sodium butyrate enema for the prevention of radiation proctitis in prostate cancer patients undergoing radical radiation therapy: results of a multicenter randomized placebo-controlled dose-finding phase 2 study.

scientific article published on 3 May 2014

Deformable registration-based segmentation of the bowel on Megavoltage CT during pelvic radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 23 June 2016

Development of a "ready to use" graphical tool based on artificial neural network classification: application for the prediction of late fecal incontinence after prostate cancer radiotherapy

scientific article published on 06 August 2018

Development of a set of nomograms to predict acute lower gastrointestinal toxicity for prostate cancer 3D-CRT.

scientific article published on 30 January 2008

Does a too risk-averse approach to the implementation of new radiotherapy technologies delay their clinical use?

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Dose Escalation in Salvage Radiation Therapy and Urinary Toxicity: A Small Price to Pay for a Significant Prospective Benefit

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

scientific article published on 07 April 2008

Dose-volume effects for normal tissues in external radiotherapy: pelvis

scientific article published on 16 September 2009

Dose-volume effects for pelvic bone marrow in predicting hematological toxicity in prostate cancer radiotherapy with pelvic node irradiation

scientific article published on 15 December 2015

Dose-volume relationships for acute bowel toxicity in patients treated with pelvic nodal irradiation for prostate cancer

scientific article published on 19 May 2009

Dosimetric factors predictive of late toxicity in prostate cancer radiotherapy

scientific article published on 24 August 2010

Dosimetric predictors of dysphonia after intensity-modulated radiotherapy for oropharyngeal carcinoma.

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Dosimetric predictors of laryngeal edema

scientific article published on 29 March 2007

Dosimetry of Gamma Knife and linac-based radiosurgery using radiochromic and diode detectors

scientific article published on 01 April 1999

Early changes of parotid density and volume predict modifications at the end of therapy and intensity of acute xerostomia.

scientific article published on 23 April 2014

Early variation of 18-fluorine-labelled fluorodeoxyglucose PET-derived parameters after chemoradiotherapy as predictors of survival in locally advanced pancreatic carcinoma patients

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Early volume variation of positive lymph nodes assessed by in-room mega voltage CT images predicts risk of loco-regional relapses in head and neck cancer patients treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 23 July 2015

Embracing Phenomenological Approaches to Normal Tissue Complication Probability Modeling: A Question of Method

scientific article published on 30 January 2015

Evidence of limited motion of the prostate by carefully emptying the rectum as assessed by daily MVCT image guidance with helical tomotherapy.

scientific article published on 18 April 2008

Expanding the scientific role of medical physics in radiotherapy: Time to act.

scientific article published on 14 December 2015

FDG PET-derived parameters as prognostic tool in progressive malignant pleural mesothelioma treated patients

scientific article published on 06 June 2018

FDG-PET/CT predicts outcome in oropharingeal carcinoma patients undergoing intensity modulated radiation therapy with dose escalation to FDG-avid tumour volumes.

scientific article published on 13 April 2017

First application of a pixel-wise analysis on bladder dose-surface maps in prostate cancer radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 15 March 2016

Fractionation and late rectal toxicity: no reliable estimates of alpha/beta value for rectum can be derived from studies where different volumes of rectum are irradiated at different dose levels: in regard to Brenner (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 20

scientific article published on 01 May 2005

Helical tomotherapy and intensity modulated proton therapy in the treatment of dominant intraprostatic lesion: a treament planning comparison

scientific article published on 27 March 2013

Helical tomotherapy and intensity modulated proton therapy in the treatment of early stage prostate cancer: a treatment planning comparison.

scientific article published on 20 December 2010

Helical tomotherapy vs. intensity-modulated proton therapy for whole pelvis irradiation in high-risk prostate cancer patients: dosimetric, normal tissue complication probability, and generalized equivalent uniform dose analysis

scientific article published on 16 December 2010

Hematologic Toxicity in Patients Treated With Postprostatectomy Whole-Pelvis Irradiation With Different Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy Techniques Is Not Negligible and Is Prolonged: Preliminary Results of a Longitudinal, Observational Study

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High-dose adjuvant radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy with or without androgen deprivation therapy

scientific article published on 13 December 2011

Higher-than-expected severe (Grade 3-4) late urinary toxicity after postprostatectomy hypofractionated radiotherapy: a single-institution analysis of 1176 patients

scientific article published on 27 June 2014

IMRT significantly reduces acute toxicity of whole-pelvis irradiation in patients treated with post-operative adjuvant or salvage radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy

scientific article published on 18 September 2009

Impact of Early Salvage Radiation Therapy in Patients with Persistently Elevated or Rising Prostate-specific Antigen After Radical Prostatectomy

scientific article published on 2 August 2017

Impact of molecular subtype on 1325 early-stage breast cancer patients homogeneously treated with hypofractionated radiotherapy without boost: Should the indications for radiotherapy be more personalized?

scientific article published on 09 December 2020

Impact of the radiotherapy technique on the correlation between dose-volume histograms of the bladder wall defined on MRI imaging and dose-volume/surface histograms in prostate cancer patients

scientific article published on 11 March 2013

In Regard to Lewis et al

scientific article published on 01 March 2016

In Regard to Pommier et al

scientific article published on 15 March 2017

In Reply to Loganadane et al

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

In vivo estimation of midline dose maps by transit dosimetry in head and neck radiotherapy

scientific article published on 01 December 2002

In-gantry or remote patient positioning? Monte Carlo simulations for proton therapy centers of different sizes

scientific article published on 25 November 2011

Inclusion of clinical risk factors into NTCP modelling of late rectal toxicity after high dose radiotherapy for prostate cancer.

scientific article published on 7 July 2011

Increasing the risk of late rectal bleeding after high-dose radiotherapy for prostate cancer: the case of previous abdominal surgery. Results from a prospective trial.

scientific article published on 20 April 2012

Intensity-modulated proton therapy versus helical tomotherapy in nasopharynx cancer: planning comparison and NTCP evaluation.

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Inter-observer variability in contouring the penile bulb on CT images for prostate cancer treatment planning.

scientific article published on 24 September 2011

Intra- and inter-observer variability in contouring prostate and seminal vesicles: implications for conformal treatment planning.

scientific article published in June 1998

Introducing the Jacobian-volume-histogram of deforming organs: application to parotid shrinkage evaluation

scientific article published on 10 May 2011

Is It Time to Tailor the Prediction of Radio-Induced Toxicity in Prostate Cancer Patients? Building the First Set of Nomograms for Late Rectal Syndrome

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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

Knowledge-based automatic optimization of adaptive early-regression-guided VMAT for rectal cancer

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Late Fecal Incontinence After High-Dose Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer: Better Prediction Using Longitudinal Definitions

scientific article published on 08 October 2011

Late rectal bleeding after 3D-CRT for prostate cancer: development of a neural-network-based predictive model.

scientific article published on 21 February 2012

Long term rectal function after high-dose prostatecancer radiotherapy: results from a prospective cohort study.

scientific article published on 11 December 2013

Long-term Impact of Adjuvant Versus Early Salvage Radiation Therapy in pT3N0 Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with Radical Prostatectomy: Results from a Multi-institutional Series

scientific article published on 30 July 2016

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

Magnetic Resonance, Vendor-independent, Intensity Histogram Analysis Predicting Pathologic Complete Response After Radiochemotherapy of Rectal Cancer

scientific article published on 04 May 2018

Modeling set-up error by daily MVCT for prostate adjuvant treatment delivered in 20 fractions: Implications for the assessment of the optimal correction strategies.

scientific article published on 18 September 2009

Modelling late stool frequency and rectal pain after radical radiotherapy in prostate cancer patients: Results from a large pooled population

scientific article published on 06 October 2016

Moderate Hypofractionation with Simultaneous Integrated Boost in Prostate Cancer: Long-term Results of a Phase I-II Study.

scientific article published on 5 March 2016

Moderately Hypofractionated Helical IMRT, FDG-PET/CT-guided, for Progressive Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma in Patients With Intact Lungs

scientific article published on 03 September 2018

More Extensive Lymph Node Dissection at Radical Prostatectomy is Associated with Improved Outcomes with Salvage Radiotherapy for Rising Prostate-specific Antigen After Surgery: A Long-term, Multi-institutional Analysis

scientific article published on 12 March 2018

Multi-variable models of large International Prostate Symptom Score worsening at the end of therapy in prostate cancer radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Multi-variable models predicting specific patient-reported acute urinary symptoms after radiotherapy for prostate cancer: Results of a cohort study.

scientific article published on 11 August 2015

Need for high radiation dose (>or=70 gy) in early postoperative irradiation after radical prostatectomy: a single-institution analysis of 334 high-risk, node-negative patients

scientific article published on 18 July 2009

On the original article by Ehsan Samei and Thomas Grist "Why physics in medicine" firstly published on the Journal of American College of Radiology (2018).

scientific article published on 9 May 2019

Oncology scan--the vision of medical physics

scientific article published on 01 February 2014

PET textural features stability and pattern discrimination power for radiomics analysis: An “ad-hoc” phantoms study

scientific article published on 30 May 2018

PET-guided dose escalation tomotherapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma

scientific article published on 28 October 2011

Parotid gland shrinkage during IMRT predicts the time to Xerostomia resolution

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Patient-reported intestinal toxicity from whole pelvis intensity-modulated radiotherapy: First quantification of bowel dose-volume effects.

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Patient-reported urinary incontinence after radiotherapy for prostate cancer: Quantifying the dose-effect.

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Patterns in ano-rectal dose maps and the risk of late toxicity after prostate IMRT

scientific article published on 12 July 2019

Phase I-II study of hypofractionated simultaneous integrated boost with tomotherapy for prostate cancer

scientific article published on 04 December 2008

Predicting Late Fecal Incontinence Risk After Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer: New Insights From External Independent Validation

scientific article published on 30 June 2018

Predicting the 5-Year Risk of Biochemical Relapse After Postprostatectomy Radiation Therapy in ≥PT2, pN0 Patients With a Comprehensive Tumor Control Probability Model

scientific article published on 18 June 2016

Predicting toxicity in radiotherapy for prostate cancer

scientific article published on 8 April 2016

Predictive models of toxicity in external radiotherapy: dosimetric issues.

scientific article published on July 2009

Predictive models of toxicity with external radiotherapy for prostate cancer: clinical issues

scientific article published on July 2009

Predictors for Rectal and Intestinal Acute Toxicities During Prostate Cancer High-Dose 3D-CRT: Results of a Prospective Multicenter Study

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Predictors of PEG dependence after IMRT±chemotherapy for oropharyngeal cancer.

scientific article published on 14 June 2013

Predictors of acute bowel toxicity in patients treated with IMRT whole pelvis irradiation after prostatectomy

scientific article published on 20 March 2010

Predictors of radio-induced visual impairment after radiosurgery for uveal melanoma

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Quality assurance of 3D-CRT: indications and difficulties in their applications.

scientific article published on 02 September 2008

Quality assurance of rapid arc treatments: performances and pre-clinical verifications of a planar detector (MapCHECK2).

scientific article published on 7 June 2013

Quantifying the robustness of [ 18 F]FDG-PET/CT radiomic features with respect to tumor delineation in head and neck and pancreatic cancer patients

scientific article published on 23 May 2018

Radiation Treatment of Lymph Node Recurrence from Prostate Cancer: Is 11C-Choline PET/CT Predictive of Survival Outcomes?

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Re: Daniel E. Spratt, Herbert A. Vargas, Zachary S. Zumsteg, et al. Patterns of Lymph Node Failure after Dose-escalated Radiotherapy: Implications for Extended Pelvic Lymph Node Coverage. Eur Urol 2017;71;37-43: High-dose Radiotherapy and Pelvic Lym

scientific article published on 05 January 2017

Rectal and bladder motion during conformal radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy.

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Relationships between bladder dose-volume/surface histograms and acute urinary toxicity after radiotherapy for prostate cancer.

scientific article published on 13 March 2014

Reply to Berardino De Bari, Filippo Alongi, Stefano Arcangeli's letter to the editor re: Cesare Cozzarini, Claudio Fiorino, Chiara Deantoni, et al. Higher-than-expected severe (grade 3-4) late urinary toxicity after postprostatectomy hypofractionate

scientific article published on 08 September 2014

Reply to Salvador Vale's Letter to the Editor re: Cesare Cozzarini. Whole-pelvis Radiotherapy in the Radiation Treatment of Intermediate- and High-risk Prostate Cancer: How to Improve the Therapeutic Ratio of a Potentially Effective but still Unsati

scientific article published on 14 February 2017

Salvage Radiation Therapy for Increasing Prostate-Specific Antigen After Radical Prostatectomy: Who, When, and How?

scientific article published on 07 November 2016

Salvage radiation therapy after prostatectomy: Understanding the dose-response effect

scientific article published on 11 May 2017

Salvage radiotherapy for patients with rising PSA

scientific article published on 01 August 2016

Salvage reirradiation for local failure of prostate cancer after curative radiation therapy: Association of rectal toxicity with dose distribution and normal-tissue complication probability models

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Second Tumor Induction Risk in IMRT for Prostate Cancer: An Unbalanced Comparison Between Surgery and Radiotherapy?

scientific article published on December 2015

Selecting the optimal candidate for adjuvant radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer: a long-term survival analysis

scientific article published on 26 October 2012

Significant correlation between rectal DVH and late bleeding in patients treated after radical prostatectomy with conformal or conventional radiotherapy (66.6-70.2 Gy).

scientific article published in March 2003

Significant reduction of acute toxicity following pelvic irradiation with helical tomotherapy in patients with localized prostate cancer

scientific article published on 13 August 2007

Simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) for nasopharynx cancer with helical tomotherapy. A planning study

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Skin DVHs predict cutaneous toxicity in Head and Neck Cancer patients treated with Tomotherapy

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

Skin dose measurements for head and neck radiotherapy

scientific article published on 01 September 1992

Sparing the penile bulb in the radical irradiation of clinically localised prostate carcinoma: A comparison between MRI and CT prostatic apex definition in 3DCRT, Linac-IMRT and Helical Tomotherapy.

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Static and rotational intensity modulated techniques for head-neck cancer radiotherapy: a planning comparison

scientific article published on 10 August 2014

Survival following biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy and adjuvant radiotherapy in patients with prostate cancer: the impact of competing causes of mortality and patient stratification

scientific article published on 13 March 2013

Technology-driven research for radiotherapy innovation

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Texture analysis for the assessment of structural changes in parotid glands induced by radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 31 October 2013

The Shape of Parotid DVH Predicts the Entity of Gland Deformation During IMRT for Head and Neck Cancers

scientific article published on 26 November 2014

The promise of adaptive radiotherapy for pelvic tumors: "too high cost for too little result" or "a low cost for a significant result"?

scientific article published on 01 July 2016

The research versus clinical service role of medical physics.

scientific article published on 26 February 2015

The role of medical physics in prostate cancer radiation therapy

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Time course of hypothalamic-pituitary deficiency in adults receiving cranial radiotherapy for primary extrasellar brain tumors.

scientific article published on 30 March 2011

To bleed or not to bleed. A prediction based on individual gene profiling combined with dose-volume histogram shapes in prostate cancer patients undergoing three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy.

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Toxicity and efficacy of salvage carbon 11-choline positron emission tomography/computed tomography-guided radiation therapy in patients with lymph node recurrence of prostate cancer.

scientific article published on 22 April 2016

Treatment planning comparison between conformal radiotherapy and helical tomotherapy in the case of locally advanced-stage NSCLC.

scientific article published on 7 August 2008

Understanding urinary toxicity after radiotherapy for prostate cancer: first steps forward.

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

Validation of a method for "dose of the day" calculation in head-neck tomotherapy by using planning ct-to-MVCT deformable image registration

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Virtual Tangential-fields Arc Therapy (ViTAT) for whole breast irradiation: Technique optimization and validation

scientific article published on 28 August 2020

Weekly dose-volume parameters of mucosa and constrictor muscles predict the use of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy during exclusive intensity-modulated radiotherapy for oropharyngeal cancer

scientific article published on 24 April 2010