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Autor:
Hao Howard Zhang, Warren D D'Souza
Publikováno v:
Journal of Medical Physics, Vol 43, Iss 1, Pp 9-15 (2018)
Purpose/Aim: To describe a two-phase intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatment planning approach, that is, promising for reduction of oral mucositis risk in locally advanced head-and-neck cancer. Materials and Methods: Ten locally advanc
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/117b31c598fb4073b904957f3cad60a2
Autor:
Byong Yong Yi, Elizabeth M. Nichols, Warren D. D'Souza, Baoshe Zhang, Shifeng Chen, Karl Prado
Publikováno v:
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
Purpose This article presents a solution for continuing radiation therapy without interruption in the event of a cyberattack to the radiation oncology information systems (ROIS). This process could be easily deployed to any radiation oncology practic
Autor:
Narottam Lamichhane, Thirupandiyur S. Udayakumar, Warren D. D’Souza, Charles B. Simone II, Srinivasa R. Raghavan, Jerimy Polf, Javed Mahmood
Publikováno v:
Molecules, Vol 23, Iss 2, p 288 (2018)
Liposomes have been extensively studied and are used in the treatment of several diseases. Liposomes improve the therapeutic efficacy by enhancing drug absorption while avoiding or minimizing rapid degradation and side effects, prolonging the biologi
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/af28492910ed480d8500d2dfb251e448
Autor:
Yuhchyau Chen, Jessica S. Donington, Warren D. D'Souza, Rebecca Paulus, Billy W. Loo, Adam P. Dicker, Joseph W. Leach, Jeffrey D. Bradley, Elizabeth Gore, Maximilian Diehn, Nathaniel R. Evans, Quynh-Thu Le, Martin J. Edelman, Chen Hu, Steven J. Feigenberg, Gregory M.M. Videtic
Publikováno v:
Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 12:1413-1420
Introduction Multimodality therapy has curative potential in locally advanced NSCLC. Mediastinal nodal sterilization (MNS) after induction chemoradiotherapy (CRT) can serve as an intermediate marker for efficacy. NRG Oncology Radiation Therapy Oncolo
Autor:
Elizabeth M. Nichols, Warren D. D'Souza, Byong Yong Yi, Wei Lu, Quynh Le, Karl Prado, Shifeng Chen, Yildirim Mutaf, Tish Leven
Publikováno v:
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
Purpose (a) To investigate the accuracy of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT)–derived dose distributions relative to fanbeam–based simulation CT-derived dose distributions; and (b) to study the feasibility of CBCT dosimetry for guiding the appr
Publikováno v:
Physics in Medicine & Biology. 62:5383-5402
Accurate tumor segmentation in PET is crucial in many oncology applications. We developed an adaptive region-growing (ARG) algorithm with a maximum curvature strategy (ARG_MC) for tumor segmentation in PET. The ARG_MC repeatedly applied a confidence
Publikováno v:
Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB). 69
In spite of its importance, no systematic and comprehensive quality assurance (QA) program for radiation oncology information systems (ROIS) to verify clinical and treatment data integrity and mitigate against data errors/corruption and/or data loss
Autor:
Wookjin Choi, M Kang, William F. Regine, Wei Lu, Ming Xue, Paul Klahr, Shifeng Chen, Warren D. D'Souza, Barton F. Lane, Kruti Patel, Jiahui Wang
Publikováno v:
Medical Physics. 43:5659-5666
Purpose To develop an individually optimized contrast-enhanced (CE) 4D-computed tomography (CT) for radiotherapy simulation in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDA). Methods Ten PDA patients were enrolled. Each underwent three CT scans: a 4D-CT imm
Autor:
Fujun Lan, Hao Zhang, Jinghao Zhou, Huan-Hsin Tseng, J.R. van Sornsen de Koste, Jean Jeudy, Suresh Senan, Warren D. D'Souza
Publikováno v:
Medical Physics. 43:5072-5079
Purpose: To investigate the incorporation of pretherapy regional ventilation function in predicting radiation fibrosis (RF) in stage III nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients treated with concurrent thoracic chemoradiotherapy. Methods: Thirty-se
Publikováno v:
Optimization Methods and Software. 31:1169-1188
Beam angle selection (BAS) is an important part of intensity-modulated radiation therapy and can be very challenging due to its huge solution space and computational difficulty. In this research, we have developed a nested partitions (NP) framework t