Effects of interfractional anatomical changes on water-equivalent pathlength in charged-particle radiotherapy of lung cancer.

abstract：:This study evaluated synthetic trehalose dicorynomycolate (S-TDCM), an immunomodulator, for its survival enhancing capacity and behavioral toxicity in B6D2F1 female mice. In survival experiments, mice were administered S-TDCM (25-400 micrograms/mouse i.p.) 20-24 hr before 5.6 Gy mixed-field fission-neutron irradiation...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Landauer MR,McChesney DG,Ledney GD

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Massive release of radioactive materials into the atmosphere occurred due to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) accident in March 2011. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) reported the results of dose estimation t...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Miyatake H,Kawai M,Yoshizawa N,Suzuki G

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:As a part of technical improvements of chromosome aberration analysis on human peripheral lymphocytes for biological radiation dosimetry, we examined the optimal conditions for the use of colcemid in chromosome preparation in order to obtain enough number of cells at metaphase in the first cell division. When treated ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Kanda R,Jiang T,Hayata I,Kobayashi S

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The estimation of the dose and the irradiated fraction of the body is important information in the primary medical response in case of a radiological accident. The PCC-R assay has been developed for high-dose estimations, but little attention has been given to its applicability for partial-body irradiations. In the pr...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Romero I,García O,Lamadrid AI,Gregoire E,González JE,Morales W,Martin C,Barquinero JF,Voisin P

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The health effects of radiation exposure from the atomic bomb fallout remain unclear. The objective of the present study is to elucidate the association between low-dose radiation exposure from the atomic bomb fallout and cancer mortality among Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors. Of 77 884 members in the Nagasaki Universi...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Yokota K,Mine M,Kondo H,Matsuda N,Shibata Y,Takamura N

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytogenetic investigation of stable-type aberrations (translocations) was carried out with our improved methods on 28 elderly individuals in a high-background radiation area (HBRA) in China, and on 24 elderly individuals in a control area (CA). The level of radiation in HBRA is 3 to 5 times higher than in CA. The mean...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Zhang W,Wang C,Chen D,Minamihisamatsu M,Morishima H,Yuan Y,Wei L,Sugahara T,Hayata I

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study is to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of proton beam therapy with cochlear dose reduction compared with conventional X-ray radiotherapy for medulloblastoma in childhood. METHODS:We developed a Markov model to describe health states of 6-year-old children with medulloblastoma after trea...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Hirano E,Fuji H,Onoe T,Kumar V,Shirato H,Kawabuchi K

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3D image-guided brachytherapy (3D-IGBT) has become a standard therapy for cervical cancer. However, the use of 3D-IGBT is limited in East and Southeast Asia. This study aimed to clarify the current usage patterns of 3D-IGBT for cervical cancer in East and Southeast Asia. A questionnaire-based survey was performed in 1...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Okonogi N,Wakatsuki M,Mizuno H,Fukuda S,Cao J,Kodrat H,Lau FN,Calaguas MJ,de Los Reyes RH,Chansilpa Y,Uddin AFMK,Adylkhanov T,Cho CK,Tsegmed U,Hoang NC,Ohno T,Nakano T,Kato S,Forum for Nuclear Cooperation in Asia.

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Six Japanese patients in Hokkaido area were diagnosed as xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) at two University Hospital; one patient, a 29 years old female (XP2AS) at Asahikawa Medical College, and five patients, namely, a 53 years old male (XP1SA), a 45 years old female (XP2SA), a 46 years old female (XP3SA), a 47 years old m...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Fujikawa K,Ayaki H,Ishizaki K,Takatera H,Matsuo S,Iizuka H,Koizumi H,Ikenaga M

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species continuously oxidize DNA bases and threaten the genetic integrity. Thymine glycol (TG), one of the representative oxidized products, is repaired mainly by base excision repair (BER). In Escherichia coli, endonuclease III (Nth) and endonuclease VIII (Nei) are known to actively remove TG from DNA...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Yamamoto R,Akiyama M,Ide H,Yamamoto K,Matsuyama S,Kubo K

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the possible effect of hypergravity to modify the signal transduction of ionizing radiation, we analyzed the accumulation of p53 and the expression of p53-dependent genes, Waf-1 and Bax, using the western blot analysis. Hypergravity (20 x g) induced the accumulation of p53 in the human glioblastoma cell l...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Okaichi K,Usui A,Ohnishi T,Okumura Y

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to compare the dosimetric parameters of whole-pelvic radiotherapy (WPRT) for cervical cancer among plans involving 3D conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT), intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), or spot-scanning proton therapy (SSPT). The dose distributions of 3D-CRT-, IMRT-, and SSPT-based WPRT...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Hashimoto S,Shibamoto Y,Iwata H,Ogino H,Shibata H,Toshito T,Sugie C,Mizoe JE

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that free radicals and oxidative stress are involved in radiation-induced skin reactions. Since vitamin E (VE) is a particularly important lipophilic antioxidant, VE-deficient mice were used to examine its effects on radiation-induced skin damage. The VE content of the skin was reduced to one four...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Chi C,Hayashi D,Nemoto M,Nyui M,Urano S,Anzai K

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NCRP has recently defined RBE values and a new quantity (Gy-Eq) for use in estimation of deterministic effects in space shielding and operations. The NCRP's RBE for neutrons is left ambiguous and not fully defined. In the present report we will suggest a complete definition of neutron RBE consistent with the NCRP ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Wilson JW,Kim MH,De Angelis G,Cucinotta FA,Yoshizawa N,Badavi FF

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyze the biological effects of the space environment, we flew nine lines of rice seeds on the Chinese 20(th) recoverable satellite for a duration of 18 days. The same lines of seeds were also irradiated to low doses (2.0 mGy) of Carbon, or Neon or Iron ions (with different LET value of 13.3 keV/microm, 31 keV/mi...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Wei LJ,Yang Q,Xia HM,Furusawa Y,Guan SH,Xin P,Sun YQ

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) continues to conduct a follow-up study initiated some years ago of cancer mortality and incidence among the survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki exposed in utero. Although only 18 incident cases of cancer were identified in the years 1950-1984 (of w...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Yoshimoto Y,Kato H,Schull WJ

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) effectiveness depends on the preferential sequestration of boron in cancer cells relative to normal tissue cells. We present a novel strategy for sequestering boron using an adenovirus expressing the sodium iodide symporter (NIS). Human glioma grown subcutaneously in athymic mice a...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Kumar S,Freytag SO,Barton KN,Burmeister J,Joiner MC,Sedghi B,Movsas B,Binns PJ,Kim JH,Brown SL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole brain irradiation (WBI) has become an indispensible tool in the treatment of head and neck cancer, and it has greatly improved patient survival rate and total survival time. In addition, prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) has dramatically decreased the incidence of brain metastatic carcinoma. However, WBI ma...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Xu M,Fan Q,Zhang J,Chen Y,Xu R,Chen L,Zhao P,Tian Y

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pulse radiolysis technique has been employed to determine the initiation and propagation rates of different transient species involved in the polymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPA) in aqueous solutions. Polymerization by anionic mechanism has been observed to be faster than by the free-radical mechanism. T...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Acharya A,Mohan H,Sabharwal S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the patterns of gene expression responsible for the radiosensitivity of glioblastoma cells, we analyzed transcriptional changes after ionizing radiation in different cell lines. After completing clonogenic survival assays, we selected two glioblastoma cell lines with different radiosensitivities. Subseque...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Otomo T,Hishii M,Arai H,Sato K,Sasai K

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the feasibility of using radiosensitivity of peripheral leukocytes as a predictor of clinical therapeutic responses to radiosurgery in individuals with cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM), we enrolled 18 patients years after they had received Gamma Knife radiosurgery for their cerebral AVM. The AVMs ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Guo WY,Pan HC,Wu HM,Hsieh WA,Tsai MH,Chow YM,Chung WY,Shiau CY,Chen SK,Chang WP

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to examine the excess relative risk for leukemia mortality and all cancers, except leukemia, among Hiroshima atomic-bomb survivors by applying ABS93D and ABS2000D. Particular attention was given to any difference in the neutron-dose estimates between the two dosimetry systems. The stud...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Katayama H,Matsuura M,Endo S,Hoshi M,Ohtaki M,Hayakawa N

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to quantify the changes of tumor blood flow (BF) in cervical cancer after radiation therapy by using perfusion computed tomography (CT), and to examine the difference between maximum slope (MS) and single-input one-compartment model (SOCM) methods. Fourteen consecutive patients who receiv...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Shibuya K,Tsushima Y,Horisoko E,Noda SE,Taketomi-Takahashi A,Ohno T,Amanuma M,Endo K,Nakano T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with various cancers, modified Glasgow prognostic score (mGPS) before treatment has predicted prognoses after antitumor therapy. This study aimed to assess whether pretreatment mGPS also has predictive value in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) after radiotherapy. A retrospective review a...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Kikuchi K,Nakamura R,Segawa T,Oikawa H,Ariga H

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve treatment conformity for prostate cancer, we investigated daily applicator displacement during high-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy (HDR-ISBT). Thirty patients treated with HDR-ISBT as monotherapy were examined. All patients received a treatment dosage of 49 Gy per 7 fractions over 4 days. For dose adm...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Takenaka T,Yoshida K,Ueda M,Yamazaki H,Miyake S,Tanaka E,Yoshida M,Yoshimura Y,Oka T,Honda K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated cytogenetic damage by measuring the frequency of micronucleated cells (MNC) in peripheral blood and buccal mucosa of head-and-neck cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy. MNC frequencies were assessed in 31 patients before, during, and after radiotherapy, and in 17 healthy controls matched for ge...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Minicucci EM,Kowalski LP,Maia MA,Pereira A,Ribeiro LR,de Camargo JL,Salvadori DM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern treatment machines have shown small inter-unit variability regarding beam data. Recently, vendor-provided average beam data, such as the Representative Beam Data (RBD) of the TrueBeam (Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA, USA), has been used for modeling of the Eclipse (Varian Medical Systems) treatment plann...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Isono M,Akino Y,Mizuno H,Tanaka Y,Masai N,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to estimate cancer risk associated with the low-level radiation exposure of an average annual effective dose of 6.4 mSv (including internal exposure) in the high background-radiation areas (HBRA) in Yangjiang, China. The mortality survey consisted of two steps, i.e., the follow-u...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Tao Z,Zha Y,Akiba S,Sun Q,Zou J,Li J,Liu Y,Kato H,Sugahara T,Wei L

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to survey the current patterns of practice, and barriers to implementation, of 3D image-guided brachytherapy (3D-IGBT) for cervical cancer in Japan. A 30-item questionnaire was sent to 171 Japanese facilities where high-dose-rate brachytherapy devices were available in 2012. In total, 135 ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ohno T,Toita T,Tsujino K,Uchida N,Hatano K,Nishimura T,Ishikura S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the 1970s and 1980s, Planel et al. reported that the growth of paramecia was decreased by shielding them from background radiation. In the 1990s, Takizawa et al. found that mouse cells displayed a decreased growth rate under shielded conditions. The purpose of the present study was to confirm that growth is impaire...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Kawanishi M,Okuyama K,Shiraishi K,Matsuda Y,Taniguchi R,Shiomi N,Yonezawa M,Yagi T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00