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A strategy to objectively evaluate the necessity of correcting detected target deviations in image guided radiotherapyNing J Yue
Department of Radiation Oncology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA
Med Phys 34:4340-7. 2007..It is concluded that the proposed strategy is potentially useful in establishing objective criteria for the necessity of correction of the target deviations...- Time dependence of energy spectra of brachytherapy sources and its impact on the half and the tenth value layersNing J Yue
Department of Radiation Oncology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 195 Little Albany Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA
Med Phys 36:5175-82. 2009..The purpose of this study is to utilize a semiempirical formalism, which quantitatively incorporates this time dependence, to calculate and evaluate the shielding requirement impacts introduced by this time dependence for a 103Pd source... - The effect of respiratory cycle and radiation beam-on timing on the dose distribution of free-breathing breast treatment using dynamic IMRTChuxiong Ding
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232, USA
Med Phys 34:3500-9. 2007..7 cm). The same results could be found for respiratory cycle up to 8 s and respiratory motion amplitude up to 1 cm. The heart dose distribution did not change significantly regardless of respiratory cycle and radiation beam-on timing... 
Intrafractional target motions and uncertainties of treatment setup reference systems in accelerated partial breast irradiationNing J Yue
Department of Radiation Oncology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 79:1549-56. 2011..This study investigated the magnitude of intrafractional motion and level of accuracy of various setup strategies in accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) using three-dimensional conformal external beam radiotherapy...- A 3D global-to-local deformable mesh model based registration and anatomy-constrained segmentation method for image guided prostate radiotherapyJinghao Zhou
Department of Radiation Oncology, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA
Med Phys 37:1298-308. 2010..The purpose of this study is to develop a novel, fast, and accurate segmentation and registration method to increase the computational efficiency to meet the restricted clinical treatment time requirement in image guided radiotherapy... - Optimization of couch translational corrections to compensate for rotational and deformable target deviations in image guided radiotherapyNing J Yue
Department of Radiation Oncology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA
Med Phys 35:4375-85. 2008..The resultant dose coverage was compared to that without the optimization. The results showed that with the present strategy, rotational and deformable target deviations can be further compensated with translational couch correction... - A cone beam CT-guided online plan modification technique to correct interfractional anatomic changes for prostate cancer IMRT treatmentWeihua Fu
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, 5230 Centre Avenue, MG60, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
Phys Med Biol 54:1691-703. 2009.... - Synchrony--cyberknife respiratory compensation technologyCihat Ozhasoglu
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Med Dosim 33:117-23. 2008..The working principles, advantages, limitations, and our clinical experience with this new technology will be discussed... - Improvement in interobserver accuracy in delineation of the lumpectomy cavity using fiducial markersTalha Shaikh
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 78:1127-34. 2010.... - Clinical implementation of tangential field intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) using sliding window technique and dosimetric comparison with 3D conformal therapy (3DCRT) in breast cancerRaj N Selvaraj
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15237 6913, USA
Med Dosim 32:299-304. 2007.... - Dosimetric evaluations of the interplay effect in respiratory-gated intensity-modulated radiation therapyHungcheng Chen
Department of Radiation Oncology, Helen F Graham Cancer Center Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware 19713, USA
Med Phys 36:893-903. 2009..With the appropriate setting of the gating window, the deviation of dose from the respiratory motion can be minimized. It appeals that limiting the residual motion to less than 0.5 cm is critical for the treatments of mobile structures... - A comparison of helical intensity-modulated radiotherapy, intensity-modulated radiotherapy, and 3D-conformal radiation therapy for pancreatic cancerMatthew M Poppe
Department of Radiation Oncology, Huntsman Cancer Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Med Dosim 36:351-7. 2011..Factors to consider before incorporating IMRT into pancreatic cancer therapy are respiratory motion, dose inhomogeneity, and mean dose... - Improvement in dose homogeneity with electronic tissue compensation over IMRT and conventional RT in whole brain radiotherapySharad Goyal
Department of Radiation Oncology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA
Radiother Oncol 88:196-201. 2008.... - Intensity-modulated radiation therapy for orbital lymphomaSharad Goyal
Department of Radiation Oncology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 195 Little Albany Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA
Radiat Med 26:573-81. 2008..Orbital manifestations of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) are rare and accounts for only 1% of all cases of NHL. There have been no reports of treating orbital lymphoma using intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT)... - Dosimetric effects of patient rotational setup errors on prostate IMRT treatmentsWeihua Fu
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
Phys Med Biol 51:5321-31. 2006..However, the degradation was not significant for the three-phase sequential boost prostate IMRT technique and for the margin sizes used in our institution... - On the assay of brachytherapy sourcesNing J Yue
Department of Radiation Oncology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA
Med Phys 34:1975-82. 2007.... - Performance characteristics and quality assurance aspects of kilovoltage cone-beam CT on medical linear acceleratorCheng B Saw
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Med Dosim 32:80-5. 2007..The CT-to-electron density relationship was also determined. By using well-designed procedures and phantom, the number of parameter checks for quality assurance of the IGRT system can be carried out in a relatively short time... - The intrafraction motion induced dosimetric impacts in breast 3D radiation treatment: a 4DCT based studyNing J Yue
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232, USA
Med Phys 34:2789-800. 2007..However, the dosimetric impact of the motion on the heart dose may be limited... - IMRT commissioning: multiple institution planning and dosimetry comparisons, a report from AAPM Task Group 119Gary A Ezzell
Department of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, 5777 East Mayo Boulevard, MCSB Concourse, Phoenix, Arizona 89054, USA
Med Phys 36:5359-73. 2009..Other facilities can use the test protocol and results as a basis for comparison to this group. Locally derived confidence limits that substantially exceed these baseline values may indicate the need for improved IMRT commissioning... - Localizing moving targets and organs using motion-managed CTsEdward D Brandner
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
Med Dosim 31:134-40. 2006.... - A novel method of island blocking in whole abdominal radiotherapy using a modified electronic tissue compensation techniqueSharad Goyal
Department of Radiation Oncology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA
Med Dosim 35:220-5. 2010..This novel use of MECOMP for whole abdominal radiotherapy should substantially reduce the labor, daily treatment time, and treatment-related errors through the elimination of cerrobend blocks... - Determination of optimal fiducial marker across image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) modalities: visibility and artifact analysis of gold, carbon, and polymer fiducial markersLydia L Handsfield
Department of Radiation Oncology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 195 Little Albany Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA
J Appl Clin Med Phys 13:3976. 2012..If MV imaging will be the sole modality for positioning verification, it may be necessary to use gold markers despite the artifacts they create on the simulation CT images... - Breast skin doses from brachytherapy using MammoSite HDR, intensity modulated radiation therapy, and tangential fields techniquesRaj N Selvaraj
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Technol Cancer Res Treat 6:17-22. 2007..This study suggests that in breast cancer radiation treatments the MammoSite HDR technique reduces skin doses compared to IMRT and tangential field techniques... - Energy spectrum based calculation of the half and the tenth value layers for brachytherapy sources using a semiempirical parametrized mass attenuation coefficient formulismNing J Yue
Department of Radiation Oncology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA
Med Phys 35:2286-93. 2008..The method presented in this study may be useful to estimate HVL (TVL) values of different materials for brachytherapy sources of different designs and containing different radionuclides... - Modern radiation treatment planning and delivery--from Röntgen to real timeRyan P Smith
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, UPMC Cancer Pavilion, 5150 Centre Avenue, Suite 545, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
Hematol Oncol Clin North Am 20:45-62. 2006..Clinical studies investigating these modalities will likely further increase the efficacy of radiation in years to come... - A dose verification method using a monitor unit matrix for dynamic IMRT on Varian linear acceleratorsXuangen Chen
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Department of Radiation Oncology, PA 15901, USA
Phys Med Biol 50:5641-52. 2005..The doses computed using the method were compared with both measurement and treatment planning for 14 and 25 plans respectively. An average of less than 2% agreement was observed and the standard deviation was about 1.9%... - Technical note: contrast solution density and cross section errors in inhomogeneity-corrected dose calculation for breast balloon brachytherapyLeonard H Kim
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, NJ, USA
Med Phys 40:011703. 2013..In this study, the authors independently estimate properties of contrast solution that were expected to be incorrectly specified in a commercial brachytherapy dose calculation algorithm... - Registration of lung tissue between fluoroscope and CT images: determination of beam gating parameters in radiotherapySukmoon Chang
Computer Science, Capital College, Penn State University, PA, USA
Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv 10:751-8. 2007..The proposed method can be used to determine beam-on timing and treatment window for radiation beam gating technology, and can potentially greatly improve radiation treatment quality... - A technique to re-establish dose distributions for previously treated brain cancer patients in external beam radiotherapyNing J Yue
Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Med Dosim 29:31-41. 2004..The method has been proven to be successful and robust... - Limitations of silicon diodes for clinical electron dosimetryHaijun Song
Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 120:56-9. 2006..Our conclusion is that in general diodes are not reliable in the measurement of depth-dose curves of clinical electron beams... - Cone-beam imaging and respiratory motion (IGRT)-part IICheng B Saw
Med Dosim 31:89-90. 2006 - Target delineation and localization (IGRT)--part 1Cheng B Saw
Med Dosim 31:1-2. 2006 - A method to implement full six-degree target shift corrections for rigid body in image-guided radiotherapyNing J Yue
Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, P O Box 208040, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8040, USA
Med Phys 33:21-31. 2006..This method was applied to a head phantom study, and it was found that the target shift was fully corrected in treatment and excellent agreement was found in target dose coverage between the plan and the treatment... - Near-field dosimetry of 125I sources for interstitial brachytherapy implants measured using thermoluminescent sheetsKazuro Iwata
Department of Oncoradiology, Nara Medical University, 840 Shijo-cho Kashihara-city Nara 634, Japan
Med Phys 31:3406-16. 2004..The relative dosimetric characteristics in the vicinity of actual interstitial brachytherapy sources containing 125I have been experimentally determined by using the TL sheet as a 2D dosimeter... - Two-dimensional dosimetry in the near field of the model 200 103Pd source for interstitial brachytherapy implants using a thermoluminescent sheetKazuro Iwata
Department of Oncoradiology, Nara Medical University, 840 Shijo Cho, Kashihara city Nara, 634, Japan
Phys Med Biol 49:4049-63. 2004..Our experiments have demonstrated that it is feasible to use the TL sheet as a dosimeter in the determination of the dosimetric characteristics in the immediate vicinity of interstitial brachytherapy sources emitting low energy photons... - Comparison of an image registration technique based on normalized mutual information with a standard method utilizing implanted markers in the staged radiosurgical treatment of large arteriovenous malformationsJames E Bond
Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520 8040, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 57:1150-8. 2003....