Recent innovations in carbon-ion radiotherapy.

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：:Chromosome painting by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with a whole chromosome-specific DNA probe was used to detect chromosomal aberrations in lymphocytes from cancer patients given partial-body fractionated X-ray therapy. Six male patients with cancer of the stomach, prostate, lung, or hepatocellular carci...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Matsuoka A,Yamada K,Hayashi M,Sofuni T

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that exposure to ionizing radiation accelerates the aging process has been actively investigated at ABCC-RERF since 1958, when longitudinal cohort studies of the Adult Health Study (AHS) and the Life Span Study (LSS) were initiated. In their 1975 overall review of aging studies related to the atomic bom...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Sasaki H,Kodama K,Yamada M

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon-ion therapy by layer-stacking irradiation for static targets has been practised in clinical treatments. In order to apply this technique to a moving target, disturbances of carbon-ion dose distributions due to respiratory motion have been studied based on the measurement using a respiratory motion phantom, and ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Tajiri S,Tashiro M,Mizukami T,Tsukishima C,Torikoshi M,Kanai T

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of whole body low-dose gamma-irradiation on the status of the antioxidant defense system in the rodent kidneys at different time intervals. Young male Balb/c mice were exposed to whole body radiation from a (60)Co source at doses of 10, 25 and 50 cGy (48.78 cGy/min). Antioxidant status and lipid...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Pathak CM,Avti PK,Kumar S,Khanduja KL,Sharma SC

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biokinetics of radon in the body has previously been studied with the assumption that its absorption through the skin is negligibly small. This assumption would be acceptable except in specific situations, such as bathing in a radon hot spring where the radon concentration in thermal water is far higher than that ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Sakoda A,Ishimori Y,Tschiersch J

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a clinical workflow of stereotactic volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for a lung tumor from planning to tumor position verification using 4D planning computed tomography (CT) and 4D cone-beam CT (CBCT). A 4D CT scanner, an Anzai belt and a BodyFix were employed to obtain 10-phase respiratory-correlate...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Nakagawa K,Haga A,Kida S,Masutani Y,Yamashita H,Takahashi W,Sakumi A,Saotome N,Shiraki T,Ohtomo K,Iwai Y,Yoda K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the interrelationship between rectal content and intrafraction motion of the prostate. Forty seven prostate cancer patients instructed to remove their rectal gas were imaged by planning CT and MRI before radiotherapy (RT) and during RT. The total scan time was comparable to our cone-beam CT scanning and t...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ogino I,Kaneko T,Suzuki R,Matsui T,Takebayashi S,Inoue T,Morita S

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Recently fluorescence in situ hybridization protocols have been developed which allow the painting of individual chromosomes using DNA-libraries from sorted human chromosomes. This approach has the particular advantage that radiation induced chromosome translocations can be easily detected, if chromosomes of distinctl...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Popp S,Cremer T

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to compare clinical outcomes and toxicity between 3D conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) and image-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IG-IMRT) administered through helical tomotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) patients receiving preoperative chemoradiotherapy. We reviewed 144 p...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Huang CM,Huang MY,Tsai HL,Huang CW,Ma CJ,Lin CH,Huang CJ,Wang JY

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To elucidate the mechanism underlying the in vivo radioprotection activity by Zn-containing, heat-treated Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast (Zn-yeast). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Zn-yeast suspension was administered into C3H/He mice immediately after whole body irradiation (WBI) at 7.5 Gy. Bone marrow was extracted fr...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ueno M,Imadome K,Iwakawa M,Anzai K,Ikota N,Imai T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyper-radiosensitivity (HRS) is a well-known bioresponse under low-dose or low-dose-rate exposures. Although disorder of the DNA repair function, non-targeted effects and accumulation of cells in G2 have been experimentally observed, the mechanism for inducing HRS by long-term irradiation is still unclear. On the basi...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Matsuya Y,Tsutsumi K,Sasaki K,Yoshii Y,Kimura T,Date H

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray induced neoplastic transformation of C3H/10T1/2 cells was suppressed equally by Lipid A and LPS. We examined the effects of several modifiers of arachidonic acid (AA) metabolism in our investigation on the suppression mechanism of LPS. Dexamethasone (DM), an inhibitor of phospholipase A2 (PLA2), abolished the ef...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Sakiyama H,Yasukawa M,Nishijima M,Wada E,Kanegasaki S

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiotherapy-induced toxicity is a major dose-limiting factor in anti-cancer treatment. Ionizing radiation leads to the formation of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) that are associated with radiation-induced cell death. Investigations of biological effects of fullerenol have provided evidence for its RO...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Bogdanović V,Stankov K,Icević I,Zikic D,Nikolić A,Solajić S,Djordjević A,Bogdanović G

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biological dosimetry system for measuring solar UV-B light was established using bacteriophage T1 with E. coli Bs-1 as the host cell. Also a new physical UV-B dosimeter was developed which can specifically detect the UV spectral region related to inactivation of phage T1. Phage T1 is very stable in liquid suspension...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Furusawa Y,Suzuki K,Sasaki M

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to elucidate the dose-response relationships for life-shortening and tumorigenic effect in the dose range below 1 Gy of gamma rays delivered during the infant period. Female B6C3F1 mice were irradiated with 0.10, 0.48 or 0.95 Gy at 7 days of age. All irradiated mice were allowed to live out the...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Sasaki S,Fukuda N

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we would like to introduce a unique approach for the estimation of radioadaptation. Recently, we proposed a new methodology for evaluating the repair efficiency of DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) using a model system. The model system can trace the fate of a single DSB, which is introduced within intron...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Yatagai F,Sugasawa K,Enomoto S,Honma M

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:The direct biological effects of radiation, particularly accelerated heavy particle ions, on neurons are not fully known. Hence, the direct effect of carbon-ion beams on immature neurons was investigated by comparing to the effect of X-rays in vitro using primary hippocampal neurons. Primary neurons were prepared from...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Kaminuma T,Suzuki Y,Shirai K,Mizui T,Noda SE,Yoshida Y,Funayama T,Takahashi T,Kobayashi Y,Shirao T,Nakano T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yield of OH radical induced by ionizing radiation was estimated by an empirical model; a prescribed diffusion model for a spur of single size applying to neutral water. Two representative spur distances were introduced, one for an incident primary charged particle and one for a representative secondary electron, t...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Yamaguchi H,Uchihori Y,Yasuda N,Takada M,Kitamura H

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose was to develop recommendations for contouring the computed tomography (CT)-based high-risk clinical target volume (CTVHR) for 3D image-guided brachytherapy (3D-IGBT) for cervical cancer. A 15-member Japanese Radiation Oncology Study Group (JROSG) committee with expertise in gynecological radiation oncology...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ohno T,Wakatsuki M,Toita T,Kaneyasu Y,Yoshida K,Kato S,Ii N,Tokumaru S,Ikushima H,Uno T,Noda SE,Kazumoto T,Harima Y,The Working Group of the Gynecological Tumor Committee of the Japanese Radiation Oncology Study Group (JROSG).

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of a curative local treatment for large hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an important issue. Here, we investigated the dose homogeneity, safety and antitumor effectiveness of proton beam therapy (PBT) using a patch-field technique for large HCC. Data from nine patients (aged 52-79 years) with large HCC tr...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Nakamura M,Fukumitsu N,Kamizawa S,Numajiri H,Nemoto Murofushi K,Ohnishi K,Aihara T,Ishikawa H,Okumura T,Tsuboi K,Sakurai H

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrafractional motion and interfractional changes affect the accuracy of the delivered dose in radiotherapy, particularly in charged-particle radiotherapy. Most recent studies are focused on intrafractional motion (respiratory motion). Here, we report a quantitative simulation analysis of the effects of interfraction...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Mori S,Lu HM,Wolfgang JA,Choi NC,Chen GT

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of radiotherapy concurrently with weekly cisplatin, followed by adjuvant chemotherapy, for the treatment of N2-3 nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) in Asian countries, especially regions of South and Southeast Asian countries where NPC is endemic. Between 20...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ohno T,Thinh DH,Kato S,Devi CR,Tung NT,Thephamongkhol K,Calaguas MJ,Zhou J,Chansilpa Y,Supriana N,Erawati D,Banu PA,Koo CC,Kobayashi K,Nakano T,Tsujii H

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of gamma-irradiation on a major nutritional function of the yolk sac (the uptake and digestion of macromolecular materials) was studied in rat visceral yolk sacs cultured in vitro being used 125I-labeled bovine serum albumin (RISA) as the tracer protein. The uptake of RISA (per g wet weight) by rat yolk sac...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Takahashi S,Koshimoto C,Kubota Y

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While recent advances in elucidating the enzyme/substrate relationship of phosphorylation cascades have demonstrated several distinct pathways in membrane-cytoplasm signaling, the molecular dissection of p53 and the products of other proto-oncogenes have greatly promoted the studies of nuclear signaling and expanded t...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Wang X,Ohnishi T

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to compare single-arc (SA) and double-arc (DA) treatment plans, which are planning techniques often used in prostate cancer volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), in the presence of intrafractional deformation (ID) to determine which technique is superior in terms of target dose coverag...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Varnava M,Sumida I,Oda M,Kurosu K,Isohashi F,Seo Y,Otani K,Ogawa K

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to investigate the normal tissue damage caused by carbon-ion therapy. We measured chromosomal aberrations in peripheral blood lymphocytes before, during, and after radiotherapy, using the techniques of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and chemically induced premature chromosome co...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Lee R,Yamada S,Yamamoto N,Miyamoto T,Ando K,Durante M,Tsujii H

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is a subset analysis of a retrospective multicenter study performed in Japan and its purpose was to investigate the effectiveness of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for pulmonary oligometastases from colorectal cancer. Local control (LC), freedom from further metastases, relapse-free survival and over...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Yamamoto T,Niibe Y,Matsumoto Y,Onishi H,Aoki M,Nishikawa A,Oh RJ,Shintani T,Yahara K,Ozaki M,Manabe Y,Jingu K

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00