Authors: Ramin Abolfath, Alejandro Bertolet, Kofi M. Deh, Rao Khan, Vanessa Sanders, Daniel Suarez-Garcia
Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, University of Sevilla, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Howard University
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To compare the efficacy of 225Ac to 90Y for local cancer therapy by quantifying DNA damage using Monte Carlo simulations.
Methods: The TOPAS n-Bio toolkit was used to simulate the irradiat...
Authors: Hamid Abdollahi Nasehabad, Mehrangiz Amiri, Mohammad Reza Deevband, Faraz Kalantari, Milad Peer-Firozjaei, Ali Shabestani Monfared, Ehsan Tajikmansoury
Affiliation: Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics Department, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Department of Radiobiology and Medical Physics, Babol University of Medical Sciences, 1. Department of Radiobiology and Medical Physics, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Targeted radionuclide therapy (TRNT) with 213Bi- labeled radiopharmaceuticals is a promising approach in targeted alpha and beta therapy for cancer. This study aims to assess double-strand...
Authors: Rachel B. Ger, Xun Jia, Youfang Lai, Todd R. McNutt, Xingyi Zhao
Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Radiotherapy (RT) plays an essential role for head and neck (HN) cancer treatment but often results in xerostomia due to salivary gland damage. It is important to mechanistically model the ra...
Authors: Jeremy T. Booth, Martin Andrew Ebert, Robert Finnegan, Annette Haworth, George Hruby, Burhan Javed, Kazi Ridita Mahtaba, Leyla Moghaddasi, Yutong Zhao
Affiliation: Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, The University of Sydney, The University of Western Australia, Genesis Care, Rockhampton Hospital
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To evaluate the efficacy of an atlas-based tumor control probability (TCP) model in predicting prostate cancer (PCa) recurrence by retrospectively integrating patient-specific primary radi...
Authors: Xinxin Deng, Issam M. El Naqa, Jimm Grimm, Lijun Ma, Vitali Moiseenko, Timothy E. Schultheiss, Gopal Subedi, Wolfgang A. Tomé, Ellen D. Yorke, Albert van der Kogel
Affiliation: Montefiore Medical Center, Wellstar Kennestone Hospital Cancer Center, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Department of Radiation Oncology, Wellstar Health System, Radiation Oncology, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of California San Diego, City Of Hope National Medical Centre, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Reirradiation is increasingly utilized in clinical practice but dose-time recovery factors for human subjects remain uncertain. We constructed a reirradiation recovery model for spinal cord e...