Publications

INTERFRACTIONAL VARIATIONS IN THE SETUP OF PELVIC BONY ANATOMY AND SOFT TISSUE, AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS ON THE DELIVERY OF PROTON THERAPY FOR LOCALIZED PROSTATE CANCER

Authors: Trofimov, A (Trofimov, Alexei), Nguyen, PL (Nguyen, Paul L.), Efstathiou, JA (Efstathiou, Jason A.), Wang, Y (Wang, Yi), Lu, HM (Lu, Hsiao-Ming), Engelsman, M (Engelsman, Martijn), Merrick, S (Merrick, Scott), Cheng, CW (Cheng, Chee-Wai), Wong, JR (Wong, James R.), Zietman, AL (Zietman, Anthony L.)
Published in: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS Volume: 80 Issue: 3 Pages: 928-937 DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.08.006 Published: JUL 1 2011
Year: 2011

UVEAL MELANOMA RECURRENCE AFTER FRACTIONATED PROTON BEAM THERAPY COMPARISON OF SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS TREATED WITH REIRRADIATION OR WITH ENUCLEATION

Authors: Marucci, L (Marucci, Laura), Ancukiewicz, M (Ancukiewicz, Marek), Lane, AM (Lane, Anne Marie), Collier, JM (Collier, John M.), Gragoudas, ES (Gragoudas, Evangelos S.), Munzenrider, JE (Munzenrider, John E.)
Published in: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS Volume: 79 Issue: 3 Pages: 842-846 DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.12.018 Published: MAR 1 2011
Year: 2011

ACCURACY OF PROTON BEAM RANGE VERIFICATION USING POST_TREATMENT POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY AS FUNCTION OF TREATMENT SITE

Authors: Knopf, AC (Knopf, Antje
Published in: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS Volume: 79 Issue: 1 Pages: 297
Year: 2011

PROTON RADIOTHERAPY FOR PEDIATRIC CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM GERM CELL TUMORS EARLY CLINICAL OUTCOMES

Authors: MacDonald, SM (MacDonald, Shannon M.), Trofimov, A (Trofimov, Alexei), Safai, S (Safai, Sairos), Adams, J (Adams, Judith), Fullerton, B (Fullerton, Barbara), Ebb, D (Ebb, David), Tarbell, NJ (Tarbell, Nancy J.), Yock, TI (Yock, Torunn I.)
Published in: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS Volume: 79 Issue: 1 Pages: 121
Year: 2011

Proton Therapy Clinical Gains through Current and Future Treatment Programs

Authors: Mohan, R (Mohan, Radhe), Bortfeld, T (Bortfeld, Thomas)
Published in: IMRT IGRT SBRT- ADVANCES IN THE TREATMENT PLANNING AND DELIVERY OF RADIOTHERAPY Book Series: Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology Volume: 43 Pages: 440-464 Published: 2011
Year: 2011

Evaluation of Registration Methods on Thoracic CT The EMPIRE10 Challenge

Authors: Murphy, K (Murphy, Keelin), van Ginneken, B (van Ginneken, Bram), Reinhardt, JM (Reinhardt, Joseph M.), Kabus, S (Kabus, Sven), Ding, K (Ding, Kai), Deng, X (Deng, Xiang), Cao, KL (Cao, Kunlin), Du, KF (Du, Kaifang), Christensen, GE (Christensen, Gary E.), Garcia, V (Garcia, Vincent), Vercauteren, T (Vercauteren, Tom), Ayache, N (Ayache, Nicholas), Commowick, O (Commowick, Olivier), Malandain, G (Malandain, Gregoire), Glocker, B (Glocker, Ben), Paragios, N (Paragios, Nikos), Navab, N (Navab, Nassir), Gorbunova, V (Gorbunova, Vladlena), Sporring, J (Sporring, Jon), de Bruijne, M (de Bruijne, Marleen), Han, X (Han, Xiao), Heinrich, MP (Heinrich, Mattias P.), Schnabel, JA (Schnabel, Julia A.), Jenkinson, M (Jenkinson, Mark), Lorenz, C (Lorenz, Cristian), Modat, M (Modat, Marc), McClelland, JR (McClelland, Jamie R.), Ourselin, S (Ourselin, Sebastien), Muenzing, SEA (Muenzing, Sascha E. A.), Viergever, MA (Viergever, Max A.), De Nigris, D (De Nigris, Dante), Collins, DL (Collins, D. Louis), Arbel, T (Arbel, Tal), Peroni, M (Peroni, Marta), Li, R (Li, Rui), Sharp, GC (Sharp, Gregory C.), Schmidt
Published in: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING Volume: 30 Issue: 11 Pages: 1901
Year: 2011

Repair kinetic considerations in particle beam radiotherapy

Authors: Carabe-Fernandez, A (Carabe-Fernandez, A.), Dale, RG (Dale, R. G.), Paganetti, H (Paganetti, H.)
Published in: BRITISH JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY Volume: 84 Issue: 1002 Pages: 546-555 DOI: 10.1259/19934996 Published: JUN 2011
Year: 2011

The physical basis and future of radiation therapy

Authors: Bortfeld, T (Bortfeld, T.), Jeraj, R (Jeraj, R.)
Published in: BRITISH JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY Volume: 84 Issue: 1002 Pages: 485-498 DOI: 10.1259/bjr/86221320 Published: JUN 2011
Year: 2011

Ranking of Stopping Criteria for Log Domain Diffeomorphic Demons Application in Clinical Radiation Therapy

Authors: Peroni, M (Peroni, M.), Golland, P (Golland, P.), Sharp, GC (Sharp, G. C.), Baroni, G (Baroni, G.)
Published in: 2011 ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC) Book Series: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference Proceedings Pages: 4884
Year: 2011

Centerline Extraction with Principal Curve Tracing to Improve 3D Level Set Esophagus Segmentation in CT Images

Authors: Kurugol, S (Kurugol, Sila), Bas, E (Bas, Erhan), Erdogmus, D (Erdogmus, Deniz), Dy, JG (Dy, Jennifer G.), Sharp, GC (Sharp, Gregory C.), Brooks, DH (Brooks, Dana H.)
Published in: 2011 ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC) Book Series: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference Proceedings Pages: 3403
Year: 2011

The reliability of proton-nuclear interaction cross-section data to predict proton-induced PET images in proton therapy

Authors: Espana, S (Espana, S.), Zhu, X (Zhu, X.), Daartz, J (Daartz, J.), El Fakhri, G (El Fakhri, G.), Bortfeld, T (Bortfeld, T.), Paganetti, H (Paganetti, H.)
Published in: PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY Volume: 56 Issue: 9 Pages: 2687-2698 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/9/003 Published: MAY 7 2011
Year: 2011

FOUR_DIMENSIONAL LUNG TREATMENT PLANNING IN LAYER_STACKING CARBON ION BEAM TREATMENT COMPARISON OF LAYER_ STACKING AND CONVENTIONAL UNGATED/GATED IRRADIATION

Authors: Mori, S (Mori, Shinichiro), Kanematsu, N (Kanematsu, Nobuyuki), Asakura, H (Asakura, Hiroshi), Sharp, GC (Sharp, Gregory C.), Kumagai, M (Kumagai, Motoki), Dobashi, S (Dobashi, Sugltru), Nakajima, M (Nakajima, Mio), Yamamoto, N (Yamamoto, Naoyoshi), Kandatsu, S (Kandatsu, Susumu), Baba, M (Baba, Masayuki)
Published in: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS Volume: 80 Issue: 2 Pages: 597
Year: 2011

Feasibility Study of B_Spline Deformable Registration between CT and MRI Atlas for Trigeminal Neuralgia Application to Radiosurgery

Authors: Peroni, M (Peroni, M.), Stancanello, J (Stancanello, J.), Muacevic, A (Muacevic, A.), Riboldi, M (Riboldi, M.), Spadea, MF (Spadea, M. F.), Sharp, GC (Sharp, G. C.), Baroni, G (Baroni, G.)
Published in: WORLD CONGRESS ON MEDICAL PHYSICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, VOL 25, PT 4: IMAGE PROCESSING, BIOSIGNAL PROCESSING, MODELLING AND SIMULATION, BIOMECHANICS Book Series: IFMBE Proceedings Volume: 25 Pages: 1649
Year: 2010

Uncertainties in Lung Motion Prediction Relying on External Surrogate A 4DCT Study in Regular vs. Irregular Breathers

Authors: Spadea, MF (Spadea, Maria Francesca), Peroni, M (Peroni, Marta), Preve, E (Preve, Eleonora), Riboldi, M (Riboldi, Marco), Baroni, G (Baroni, Guido), Chen, GTY (Chen, George T. Y.), Sharp, GC (Sharp, Gregory Charles)
Published in: TECHNOLOGY IN CANCER RESEARCH & TREATMENT Volume: 9 Issue: 3 Pages: 307
Year: 2010

Design of and technical challenges involved in a framework for multicentric radiotherapy treatment planning studies

Authors: Roelofs, E (Roelofs, Erik), Persoon, L (Persoon, Lucas), Qamhiyeh, S (Qamhiyeh, Sima), Verhaegen, F (Verhaegen, Frank), De Ruysscher, D (De Ruysscher, Dirk), Scholz, M (Scholz, Michael), Iancu, G (Iancu, Gheorghe), Engelsman, M (Engelsman, Martijn), Rasch, C (Rasch, Coen), Zijp, L (Zijp, Lambert), De Meerleer, G (De Meerleer, Gert), Coghe, M (Coghe, Marc), Langendijk, J (Langendijk, Johannes), Schilstra, C (Schilstra, Cornelis), Pijls-Johannesma, M (Pijls-Johannesma, Madelon), Lambin, P (Lambin, Philippe)
Published in: RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY Volume: 97 Issue: 3 Pages: 567-571 DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.08.009 Published: DEC 2010
Year: 2010

Spread-out antiproton beams deliver poor physical dose distributions for radiation therapy

Authors: Paganetti, H (Paganetti, Harald), Goitein, M (Goitein, Michael), Parodi, K (Parodi, Katia)
Published in: RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY Volume: 95 Issue: 1 Pages: 79-86 DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.03.020 Published: APR 2010
Year: 2010

Proton vs carbon ion beams in the definitive radiation treatment of cancer patients

Authors: Suit, H (Suit, Herman), DeLaney, T (DeLaney, Thomas), Goldberg, S (Goldberg, Saveli), Paganetti, H (Paganetti, Harald), Clasie, B (Clasie, Ben), Gerweck, L (Gerweck, Leo), Niemierko, A (Niemierko, Andrzej), Hall, E (Hall, Eric), Flanz, J (Flanz, Jacob), Hallman, J (Hallman, Josh), Trofimov, A (Trofimov, Alexei)
Published in: RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY Volume: 95 Issue: 1 Pages: 3-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.01.015 Published: APR 2010
Year: 2010

Better radiation weighting factors for neutrons generated from proton treatment are needed

Authors: Xu, XG (Xu, X. George), Paganetti, H (Paganetti, Harald)
Published in: RADIATION PROTECTION DOSIMETRY Volume: 138 Issue: 4 Pages: 291-294 DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncq028 Published: 2010
Year: 2010

Extension of the NCAT phantom for the investigation of intra_fraction respiratory motion in IMRT using 4D Monte Carlo

Authors: McGurk, R (McGurk, Ross), Seco, J (Seco, Joao), Riboldi, M (Riboldi, Marco), Wolfgang, J (Wolfgang, John), Segars, P (Segars, Paul), Paganetti, H (Paganetti, Harald)
Published in: PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY Volume: 55 Issue: 5 Pages: 1475
Year: 2010

The impact of uncertainties in the CT conversion algorithm when predicting proton beam ranges in patients from dose and PET-activity distributions

Authors: Espana, S (Espana, Samuel), Paganetti, H (Paganetti, Harald)
Published in: PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY Volume: 55 Issue: 24 Pages: 7557-7571 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/24/011 Published: DEC 21 2010
Year: 2010