Publications

Implementation of An Extension Module for Dose Response Models in the TOPAS Monte Carlo Toolkit

Authors: Ramos-Mendez, J (Ramos-Mendez, J.)[ 1 ] , Perl, J (Perl, J.)[ 2 ] , Schuemann, J (Schuemann, J.)[ 3 ] , Shin, J (Shin, J.)[ 4 ] , Paganetti, H (Paganetti, H.)[ 3 ] , Faddegon, B (Faddegon, B.)[ 1 ]
Published in: MEDICAL PHYSICS Volume: 42 Issue: 6 Pages: 3441-3442 Published: JUN 2015
Year: 2015

Evaluating Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy Relative to Passive Scattering Proton Therapy for Increased Vertebral Column Sparing in CSI of Pediatric Patients

Authors: Seco, J (Seco, J.), Giantsoudi, D (Giantsoudi, D.), Eaton, BR (Eaton, B. R.), Adams, JA (Adams, J. A.), Paganetti, H (Paganetti, H.), MacDonald, S(MacDonald, S.)
Published in: MEDICAL PHYSICS Volume: 42 Issue: 6 Pages: 3418-3418 Published: JUN 2015
Year: 2015

Assessing the Clinical Impact of Approximations in Analytical Dose Calculations for Proton Therapy

Authors: Schuemann, J (Schuemann, J.)[ 1 ] , Giantsoudi, D (Giantsoudi, D.)[ 1 ] , Grassberger, C (Grassberger, C.)[ 1 ] , Paganetti, H (Paganetti, H.)[ 1 ]
Published in: MEDICAL PHYSICS Volume: 42 Issue: 6 Pages: 3362-3362 Published: JUN 2015
Year: 2015

A Deterministic Solver of the Boltzmann-Fokker-Planck Equation for Dose Calculation

Authors: Hong, X (Hong, X.)[ 1 ] , Paganetti, H (Paganetti, H.)[ 2 ] , Gao, H (Gao, H.)[ 1 ]
Published in: MEDICAL PHYSICS Volume: 42 Issue: 6 Pages: 3335-3335 Published: JUN 2015
Year: 2015

Time Evolution of Radiation-Induced Lung Injury After Stereotactic Proton Therapy

Authors: Grassberger, C (Grassberger, C.)[ 1 ] , Sharp, G (Sharp, G.)[ 1 ] , Fintelmann, F (Fintelmann, F.)[ 1 ] , Paganetti, H (Paganetti, H.)[ 1 ] , Willers, H (Willers, H.)[ 1 ]
Published in: MEDICAL PHYSICS Volume: 42 Issue: 6 Pages: 3323-3323 Published: JUN 2015
Year: 2015

A Recommendation on How to Analyze In-Room PET for In Vivo Proton Range Verification Using a Distal PET Surface Method

Authors: Min, CH (Min, Chul Hee)[ 1,2,3,4 ] , Zhu, XP (Zhu, Xuping)[ 2,5 ] , Grogg, K (Grogg, Kira)[ 2,5 ] , El Fakhri, G (El Fakhri, Georges)[ 2,5 ] , Winey, B (Winey, Brian)[ 1,2 ] , Paganetti, H (Paganetti, Harald)[ 1,2 ]
Published in: TECHNOLOGY IN CANCER RESEARCH & TREATMENTVolume: 14 Issue: 3 Pages: 320-325 Published: JUN 2015
Year: 2015

Mapping O-15 Production Rate for Proton Therapy Verification

Authors: Grogg, K (Grogg, Kira)[ 1 ] , Alpert, NM (Alpert, Nathaniel M.)[ 1 ] , Zhu, XP (Zhu, Xuping)[ 1 ] , Min, CH (Min, Chul Hee)[ 2 ] , Testa, M (Testa, Mauro)[ 3,4 ] ,Winey, B (Winey, Brian)[ 3,4 ] , Normandin, MD (Normandin, Marc D.)[ 1 ] , Shih, HA (Shih, Helen A.)[ 3,4 ] , Paganetti, H (Paganetti, Harald)[ 3,4 ] , Bortfeld, T(Bortfeld, Thomas)[ 3,4 ] , El Fakhri, G (El Fakhri, Georges)[ 1 ]
Published in: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS Volume: 92 Issue: 2 Pages: 453-459 Published: JUN 1 2015
Year: 2015

Biological modeling of gold nanoparticle enhanced radiotherapy for proton therapy

Authors: Lin, YT (Lin, Yuting)[ 1,2 ] , McMahon, SJ (McMahon, Stephen J.)[ 1,2,3 ] , Paganetti, H (Paganetti, Harald)[ 1,2 ] , Schuemann, J (Schuemann, Jan)[ 1,2 ]
Published in: PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY Volume: 60 Issue: 10 Pages: 4149-4168 Published MAY 21 2015
Year: 2015

Monitoring proton therapy with PET

Authors: Paganetti, H (Paganetti, H.)[ 1,2 ] , El Fakhri, G (El Fakhri, G.)[ 2,3 ]
Published in: BRITISH JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY Volume: 88 Issue: 1051 Published May 20 2015
Year: 2015

Motion mitigation for lung cancer patients treated with active scanning proton therapy

Authors: Grassberger, C (Grassberger, Clemens)[ 1,2,3 ] , Dowdell, S (Dowdell, Stephen)[ 1,2 ] , Sharp, G (Sharp, Greg)[ 1,2 ] , Paganetti, H (Paganetti, Harald)[ 1,2 ]
Published in: MEDICAL PHYSICS Volume: 42 Issue: 5 Pages: 2462-2469 Published: MAY 2015
Year: 2015

The emergence of nonuniform spatiotemporal fractionation schemes within the standard BED model

Authors: Unkelbach, J (Unkelbach, Jan)[ 1,2 ] , Papp, D (Papp, David)[ 1,2 ]
Published in: MEDICAL PHYSICS Volume: 42 Issue: 5 Pages: 2234-2241 Published: MAY 2015
Year: 2015

Radiobiological Intercomparison of the 160 MeV and 230 MeV Proton Therapy Beams at the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory and at Massachusetts General Hospital

Authors: Wouters, BG (Wouters, Bradly G.), Skarsgard, LD (Skarsgard, Lloyd D.), Gerweck, LE (Gerweck, Leo E.), Carabe-Fernandez, A (Carabe-Fernandez, Alejandro), Wong, M (Wong, Michelle), Durand, RE (Durand, Ralph E.), Nielson, D (Nielson, Deanna), Bussiere, MR (Bussiere, Marc R.), Wagner, M (Wagner, Miles), Biggs, P (Biggs, Peter), Paganetti, H (Paganetti, Harald), Suit, HD (Suit, Herman D.)
Published in: RADIATION RESEARCH Volume: 183 Issue: 4 Pages: E51-E51 Published: APR 2015
Year: 2015

Lung Cancer Cell Line Screen Links Fanconi Anemia/BRCA Pathway Defects to Increased Relative Biological Effectiveness of Proton Radiation

Authors: Liu, Q (Liu, Qi)[ 1 ] , Ghosh, P (Ghosh, Priyanjali)[ 1 ] , Magpayo, N (Magpayo, Nicole)[ 1 ] , Testa, M (Testa, Mauro)[ 2 ] , Tang, SK (Tang, Shikui)[ 2 ] ,Gheorghiu, L (Gheorghiu, Liliana)[ 1 ] , Biggs, P (Biggs, Peter)[ 2 ] , Paganetti, H (Paganetti, Harald)[ 2 ] , Efstathiou, JA (Efstathiou, Jason A.)[ 1 ] , Lu, HM (Lu, Hsiao-Ming)[ 2 ] , Held, KD (Held, Kathryn D.)[ 1 ] , Willers, H (Willers, Henning)[ 1 ]
Published in: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS Volume: 91 Issue: 5 Pages: 1081-1089 Published: APR 1 2015
Year: 2015

Relating Proton Treatments to Photon Treatments via the Relative Biological Effectiveness-Should We Revise Current Clinical Practice?

Authors: Paganetti, H (Paganetti, Harald)[ 1,2 ]
Published in: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS Volume: 91 Issue: 5 Pages: 892-894 Published APRIL 1 2015
Year: 2015

Three-dimensional conformal planning with low-segment multicriteria intensity modulated radiation therapy optimization.

Authors: Khan, Fazal, Craft, David
Published in: Practical radiation oncology Volume:5 Issue:2 Pages:e103-11 Published:2015 Mar-Apr (Epub 2014 Aug 21)
Year: 2015

Validation of a GPU-based Monte Carlo code (gPMC) for proton radiation therapy: clinical cases study

Authors: Giantsoudi, D (Giantsoudi, Drosoula)[ 1,2 ] , Schuemann, J (Schuemann, Jan)[ 1,2 ] , Jia, X (Jia, Xun)[ 3 ] , Dowdell, S (Dowdell, Stephen)[ 4 ] , Jiang, S(Jiang, Steve)[ 3 ] , Paganetti, H (Paganetti, Harald)[ 1,2 ]
Published in: PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY Volume: 60 Issue: 6 Pages: 2257-2269 Published MARCH 21 2015
Year: 2015

The Far-Reaching Subject Matter of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology

Authors: Klein, EE (Klein, Eric E.), Dong, L (Dong, Lei), Paganetti, H (Paganetti, Harold), Tanderup, K (Tanderup, Kari)
Published in: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS Volume: 91 Issue: 4 Pages: 697-700 Published MARCH 15 2015
Year: 2015

The research versus clinical service role of medical physics

Authors: Bortfeld, T (Bortfeld, Thomas)[ 1,2 ] , Torresin, A (Torresin, Alberto)[ 3 ] , Fiorino, C (Fiorino, Claudio)[ 4 ] , Andreo, P (Andreo, Pedro)[ 5 ] , Gagliardi, G(Gagliardi, Giovanna)[ 6 ] , Jeraj, R (Jeraj, Robert)[ 7 ] , Muren, LP (Muren, Ludvig P.)[ 8 ] , Paiusco, M (Paiusco, Marta)[ 9 ] , Thwaites, D (Thwaites, David)[ 10 ] , Knoos, T (Knoos, Tommy)[ 11,12 ]
Published in: RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY Volume: 114 Issue: 3 Pages: 285-288 Published: MAR 2015
Year: 2015

Optimization approaches to volumetric modulated arc therapy planning

Authors: Unkelbach, J (Unkelbach, Jan)[ 1,2 ] , Bortfeld, T (Bortfeld, Thomas)[ 1,2 ] , Craft, D (Craft, David)[ 1,2 ] , Alber, M (Alber, Markus)[ 3,4 ] , Bangert, M(Bangert, Mark)[ 5 ] , Bokrantz, R (Bokrantz, Rasmus)[ 6 ] , Chen, D (Chen, Danny)[ 7 ] , Li, RJ (Li, Ruijiang)[ 8 ] , Xing, L (Xing, Lei)[ 8 ] , Men, CH (Men, Chunhua)[ 9 ] , Nill, S (Nill, Simeon)[ 10,11 ] , Papp, D (Papp, David)[ 12 ] , Romeijn, E (Romeijn, Edwin)[ 13 ] , Salari, E (Salari, Ehsan)[ 14 ]
Published in: MEDICAL PHYSICS Volume: 42 Issue: 3 Pages: 1367-1377 Published: MAR 2015
Year: 2015

Radiobiological Intercomparison of the 160 MeV and 230 MeV Proton Therapy Beams at the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory and at Massachusetts General Hospital

Authors: Wouters, BG (Wouters, Bradly G.)[ 1 ] , Skarsgard, LD (Skarsgard, Lloyd D.)[ 2 ] , Gerweck, LE (Gerweck, Leo E.)[ 3,4 ] , Carabe-Fernandez, A (Carabe-Fernandez, Alejandro)[ 5 ] , Wong, M (Wong, Michelle)[ 2 ] , Durand, RE (Durand, Ralph E.)[ 2 ] , Nielson, D (Nielson, Deanna)[ 2 ] , Bussiere, MR (Bussiere, Marc R.)[ 3,4 ] , Wagner, M (Wagner, Miles)[ 6 ] , Biggs, P (Biggs, Peter)[ 3,4 ] , Paganetti, H (Paganetti, Harald)[ 3,4 ] , Suit, HD (Suit, Herman D.)[ 3,4 ]
Published in: RADIATION RESEARCH Volume: 183 Issue: 2 Pages: 174-187 Published: FEB 2015
Year: 2015