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Robotic assistance for ultrasound-guided prostate brachytherapyGabor Fichtinger
Queen s University, 25 Union Street, 725 Goodwin Hall, Kingston, ON, Canada
Med Image Anal 12:535-45. 2008..Further clinical trials are necessary to determine whether the apparent benefits of the robotic assistant will lead to improvements in clinical efficacy and outcomes...
Robotic needle guide for prostate brachytherapy: clinical testing of feasibility and performanceDanny Y Song
Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 401 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Brachytherapy 10:57-63. 2011..Optimization of prostate brachytherapy is constrained by tissue deflection of needles and fixed spacing of template holes. We developed and clinically tested a robotic guide toward the goal of allowing greater freedom of needle placement...- Dynamic intraoperative dosimetry for prostate brachytherapy using a nonisocentric C-armDanny Y Song
Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Brachytherapy 10:98-106. 2011.... 
Stereotactic body radiation therapy of lung tumors: preliminary experience using normal tissue complication probability-based dose limitsDanny Y Song
Department of Radiation Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA, USA
Am J Clin Oncol 28:591-6. 2005..To assess the feasibility and toxicity of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for patients with locally advanced or metastatic tumors in lung...- Point-to-volume registration of prostate implants to ultrasoundEhsan Dehghan
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv 14:615-22. 2011..8 +/- 0.9mm. With low registration error, high computational speed and no need for manual seed segmentation, our method is promising for clinical application... - Radiation therapy for prostate cancer: the role for dose escalationMichael J Swartz
Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Compr Ther 33:216-22. 2007..Emerging data suggest improvements in disease control with higher doses of radiation in subsets of patients with prostate cancer... - Prognostic factors in pediatric high-grade astrocytoma: the importance of accurate pathologic diagnosisRussell K Hales
Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 401 North Broadway, Suite 1440, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
J Neurooncol 99:65-71. 2010..Pathologic misdiagnosis should be suspected in patients who are long term survivors of a pediatric high grade astrocytoma... - Evaluation of safety in a radiation oncology setting using failure mode and effects analysisEric C Ford
Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 74:852-8. 2009..Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a widely used tool for prospectively evaluating safety and reliability. We report our experiences in applying FMEA in the setting of radiation oncology... - Quantification of tumor volume changes during radiotherapy for non-small-cell lung cancerJana Fox
Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 74:341-8. 2009..We evaluated sequential computed tomography (CT) scans to assess the possibility of adaptively reducing treatment volumes by quantifying the tumor volume reduction occurring during a course of radiotherapy (RT)... - Transperineal prostate intervention: robot for fully automated MR imaging--system description and proof of principle in a canine modelMichael Muntener
URobotics Laboratory, Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, JHBMC, MFL W115, 5200 Eastern Ave, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Radiology 247:543-9. 2008..02 mm (range, 0.86-3.18 mm) and 2.50 mm (range, 1.45-10.54 mm), respectively. The robotic system is capable of accurate MR imaging-guided prostatic needle intervention within a standard MR imager in vivo in a canine model... - Stereotactic body radiation therapy. Rationale, techniques, applications, and optimizationDanny Y Song
Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA
Oncology (Williston Park) 18:1419-30; discussion 1430, 1432, 1435-6. 2004..This article provides an overview of the rationale and results of SBRT for specific indications, descriptions of some methods of treatment delivery, and discussion of potential areas of future investigation... - Robotic assistance for ultrasound guided prostate brachytherapyGabor Fichtinger
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv 10:119-27. 2007..17mm) and 0.75 degrees (STD = 0.37 degrees). The needle tip placement errors measured in TRUS were 1.04mm (STD = 0.50mm). The system is in Phase-I clinical feasibility and safety trials, under Institutional Review Board approval... - Effects of prostate-rectum separation on rectal dose from external beam radiotherapyRobert C Susil
Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 76:1251-8. 2010..g., by injecting a spacer) can reduce the rectal radiation dose. Despite pilot clinical studies, no careful analysis has been done of the risks, benefits, and dosimetric effects of this practice... - Localization of pelvic anatomical coordinate system using US/atlas registration for total hip replacementPezhman Foroughi
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv 11:871-9. 2008..This technique has been evaluated using simulation, dry bone, and cadaver experiments and was able to localize the anatomical coordinate system with the accuracy of about 1 degree... - Thoracic irradiation in the elderlyKristin J Redmond
Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 401 North Broadway, Suite 1440, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Thorac Surg Clin 19:391-400. 2009..Prospective data from elderly specific trials are needed to determine the optimal treatment of lung cancer and to compare innovative radiation technology with standard therapies... - Comparison of daily couch shifts using MVCT (TomoTherapy) and B-mode ultrasound (BAT System) during prostate radiotherapySteven H Lin
Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 401 North Broadway, Suite 1440, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA
Technol Cancer Res Treat 7:279-85. 2008..These considerations need to be made when defining treatment volumes, and argue for the use of less disruptive techniques for daily prostate localization... - Prostate brachytherapy seed reconstruction with Gaussian blurring and optimal coverage costJunghoon Lee
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
IEEE Trans Med Imaging 28:1955-68. 2009..In a Phase-1 clinical trial, we were able to localize the implanted seeds from five intraoperative fluoroscopy images with 98.8% (STD=1.6) overall detection rate... - Phase I trial with a combination of docetaxel and ¹⁵³Sm-lexidronam in patients with castration-resistant metastatic prostate cancerJianqing Lin
Prostate Cancer Program, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Urol Oncol 29:670-5. 2011.... - "MRI Stealth" robot for prostate interventionsDan Stoianovici
Urology Robotics, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Minim Invasive Ther Allied Technol 16:241-8. 2007..Its multi-imager compatibility and other preclinical tests are included. The robot shows the technical feasibility of MRI-guided prostate interventions, yet its clinical utility is still to be determined... - Respiratory motion changes of lung tumors over the course of radiation therapy based on respiration-correlated four-dimensional computed tomography scansKristin J Redmond
Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 75:1605-12. 2009..To determine whether lung tumor respiratory excursion at simulation is predictive of excursion during radiation and whether phase offsets between tumor and surrogate markers are constant throughout treatment... - Salvage radiotherapy for rising or persistent PSA after radical prostatectomyDanny Y Song
Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Urology 60:281-7. 2002..Patients should be referred promptly for salvage RT after detection of relapse... - Optimal matching for prostate brachytherapy seed localization with dimension reductionJunghoon Lee
Department of Electrical and Computer Eng, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv 12:59-66. 2009..It was validated on 5 phantom and 18 patient datasets, successfully localizing the seeds with detection rate of > or = 97.6% and reconstruction error of < or = 1.2 mm. This is considered to be clinically excellent performance... - Perineural invasion affects biochemical recurrence-free survival in patients with prostate cancer treated with definitive external beam radiotherapyHsiang Hsuan M Yu
Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21231 2410, USA
Urology 70:111-6. 2007..To assess the prognostic effect of perineural invasion (PNI) for patients undergoing external beam radiotherapy for prostate cancer... - Radiation dose escalation as treatment for clinically localized prostate cancer: is more really better?Theodore L DeWeese
JAMA 294:1274-6. 2005
Research Grants
- Intraoperative Dose Visualization using X-Ray and Ultrasound for Prostate BrachytDanny Song; Fiscal Year: 2010....