Analysis of simultaneous modulated accelerated radiotherapy (SMART) for nasopharyngeal carcinomas.

abstract：:The brachytherapy dose calculations used in treatment planning systems (TPSs) have conventionally been performed assuming homogeneous water. Using measurements and a Monte Carlo simulation, we evaluated the dosimetric impact of an air passage on brachytherapy for bronchus cancer. To obtain the geometrical characterist...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Okamoto H,Wakita A,Nakamura S,Nishioka S,Aikawa A,Kato T,Abe Y,Kobayashi K,Inaba K,Murakami N,Itami J

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radioprotective activity of the hydroalcoholic extract of jamun seeds (SCE) was studied in mice exposed to different doses of gamma radiation. The mice were injected with 0, 5, 10, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140 or 160 mg/kg body weight of SCE, before exposure to 10 Gy of gamma radiation, to select the optimum dose...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Jagetia GC,Baliga MS,Venkatesh P

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this research was to provide data from a single-center study of the treatment of synchronous hypopharyngeal cancer (HPC) and esophageal cancer (EC) with different treatment modalities. A total of 61 patients with synchronous HPC and EC were included in this study. Patients were treated with radiotherapy/che...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Yang S,Yang S,Liao W,Huang R,Li B,Lu S,Li C,Wang Z,Li C,Pei J,Wen H,Zhang S

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:When DNA is damaged by exposure to a small amount of radiation, it is repaired efficiently by innate mechanisms. However, if cellular damage is more extensive, DNA repair cannot be adequately completed. To clarify the role of the p53 gene in apoptotic tissue repair, the incidence of in-vivo radiation-induced somatic m...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Kato F,Kakihara H,Kunugita N,Ootsuyama A,Norimura T

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New precision radiotherapy (RT) techniques reduce the uncertainties in localizing soft and moving tumors. However, there are still many uncontrollable internal organ movements. In our study, patients who underwent neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NA-CRT) for rectal cancer were evaluated to determine inter-fraction mesor...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Alickikus ZA,Kuru A,Aydin B,Akcay D,Gorken IB

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to analyze the patterns of care and outcomes of patients with FIGO Stage I/II cervical cancer who underwent definitive radiotherapy (RT) at multiple Japanese institutions. The Japanese Radiation Oncology Study Group (JROSG) performed a questionnaire-based survey of their cervical cancer p...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ariga T,Toita T,Kato S,Kazumoto T,Kubozono M,Tokumaru S,Eto H,Nishimura T,Niibe Y,Nakata K,Kaneyasu Y,Nonoshita T,Uno T,Ohno T,Iwata H,Harima Y,Wada H,Yoshida K,Gomi H,Numasaki H,Teshima T,Yamada S,Nakano T

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:To clarify the nature of the genes that contribute to the radiosensitivity of human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs), we analyzed the gene expression profiles detected in HSPCs irradiated with 2 Gy X-rays after culture with or without an optimal combination of hematopoietic cytokines. Highly purified CD34(+...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Tsujiguchi T,Hirouchi T,Monzen S,Tabuchi Y,Takasaki I,Kondo T,Kashiwakura I

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactions of edaravone (3-methyl-1-phenyl-2-pyrazolin-5-one) with deoxyguanosine monophosphate (dGMP) hydroxyl radical adducts were investigated by pulse radiolysis technique. Edaravone was found to reduce the dGMP hydroxyl radical adducts through electron transfer reactions. The rate constants of the reactions were g...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Hata K,Urushibara A,Yamashita S,Lin M,Muroya Y,Shikazono N,Yokoya A,Fu H,Katsumura Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to investigate the various effects of high linear energy transfer (LET) carbon ion (12C6+) and low LET X-ray radiation on MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 human breast cancer cells and to explore the underlying mechanisms of radiation sensitivity. Cell proliferation, cell colony formation, cell cycle dist...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Zhang Q,Kong Y,Yang Z,Liu Y,Liu R,Geng Y,Luo H,Zhang H,Li H,Feng S,Wang X

更新日期：2020-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the radiological response and clinical outcome in patients with femoral bone metastases after radiotherapy. 102 consecutive patients with femoral metastases without pathological fracture were treated by surgery or radiotherapy between 2002 and 2005. Twelve of them initially treated with surgery were exclu...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Harada H,Katagiri H,Kamata M,Yoshioka Y,Asakura H,Hashimoto T,Furutani K,Takahashi M,Sakahara H,Nishimura T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionizing radiation induces biological effects not only in irradiated cells but also in non-irradiated cells, which is called the bystander effect. Recently, in vivo and in vitro experiments have suggested that both gap junction hemichannel connexin43 (Cx43) and extracellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) released from ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ohshima Y,Tsukimoto M,Harada H,Kojima S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation-induction therapy is an attractive approach in leukemia treatment. It has been suggested that the accumulation of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) is involved in megakaryocytic differentiation induced by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) in the K562 leukemia cell line. Therefore, a ROS-i...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Hirose K,Monzen S,Sato H,Sato M,Aoki M,Hatayama Y,Kawaguchi H,Narita Y,Takai Y,Kashiwakura I

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Japan, the use of adjuvant radiotherapy after prostatectomy for prostate cancer has not increased compared with the use of salvage radiotherapy. We retrospectively evaluated the outcome of adjuvant radiotherapy together with prognostic factors of outcome in Japan. Between 2005 and 2007, a total of 87 patients were ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Aoki M,Mizowaki T,Akimoto T,Nakamura K,Ejima Y,Jingu K,Tamai Y,Nakajima N,Takemoto S,Kokubo M,Katoh H

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:An overview is given of the dose-response relationship for stable chromosome aberrations (i.e., translocations and inversions) in the peripheral blood lymphocytes of A-bomb survivors in Hiroshima. Special emphasis is placed on (i) the overdispersion of survivor cases with either unexpectedly high or low aberration fre...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Awa AA,Nakano M,Ohtaki K,Kodama Y,Lucas J,Gray J

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutron dose is transferred to biological materials through the recoil protons produced by elastic scattering. When a low-velocity proton collides with the atoms or molecules of a target, it changes to a hydrogen atom by electron capture; this hydrogen atom then changes to a proton by losing the electron. Because the ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Endo S

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：: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：:Efficacy of different schedules of HDR brachytherapy in concurrent chemoradiotherapy was evaluated. The study compared the effectiveness of the two HDR brachytherapy schedules which have the same Biological Effective Dose (BED) in locally advanced cervical carcinoma that was treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy. ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Tharavichitkul E,Klunkin P,Lorvidhaya V,Sukthomya V,Chakrabhandu S,Pukanhaphan N,Chitapanarux I,Galalae R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liquid ionization chambers (LICs) are highly sensitive to dose irradiation and have small perturbations because of their liquid-filled sensitive volume. They require a sensitive volume much smaller than conventional air-filled chambers. However, it has been reported that the collection efficiency has dependencies on t...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Takei H,Isobe T,Kitamura N,Mori Y,Tomita T,Kobayashi D,Kamizawa S,Sato T,Sakurai H,Sakae T

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：:Immediately after X-irradiation, monocytic cells can express the gene for interleukin (IL)-1beta, which enhances inflammation and contributes to radioprotection in mice. In order to analyze the mechanism(s) for the immediate-early induction of IL-1beta after X-irradiation at 20 Gy in cultured murine macrophages, we ex...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ishihara H,Tanaka I,Wan H,Cheeramakara C

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rho-associated coiled-coil-containing protein kinase (ROCK) pathway is known to influence metastasis in several cancers; however, the impact of the pathway on clinical outcomes in patients undergoing radiotherapy remains unknown. In the present study, the expression of RhoA, RhoC, ROCK-1, ROCK-2 and p53 was immuno...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Tanaka K,Matsumoto Y,Ishikawa H,Fukumitsu N,Numajiri H,Murofushi K,Oshiro Y,Okumura T,Satoh T,Sakurai H

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that X-ray irradiation affects angiogenesis in tumors. Here, we studied the effects of gamma-ray irradiation on boron-10 compound accumulation in a murine tumor model. The mouse squamous cell carcinoma was irradiated with gamma-ray before BSH ((10)B-enriched borocaptate sodium) admin...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Liu Y,Nagata K,Masunaga S,Suzuki M,Kashino G,Kinashi Y,Tanaka H,Sakurai Y,Maruhashi A,Ono K

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify the repair dynamics involved in high linear energy transfer (LET) radiation-induced DNA damage, phospho-H2AX (gammaH2AX) foci formation was analyzed after cellular exposure to iron ions (Fe-ions, 500 MeV u(-1), 200 KeV microm(-1)). The foci located at DNA damage sites were visualized using immunocytochemic...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Takahashi A,Yamakawa N,Kirita T,Omori K,Ishioka N,Furusawa Y,Mori E,Ohnishi K,Ohnishi T

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:Surgery is the standard modality for early-stage I-II non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Generally, patients who are >80 years old tend to have more comorbidities and inferior physical status than younger patients. Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) may provide an alternative treatment for this group of patie...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Bei Y,Murakami N,Nakayama Y,Okuma K,Kashihara T,Raturi VP,Okamoto H,Takahashi K,Inaba K,Igaki H,Itami J

更新日期：2020-07-06 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：:This study aimed to identify factors that predict prognosis after radiotherapy for brain metastases (BMs) from small-cell lung cancer (SCLC). This study retrospectively evaluated 48 consecutive patients who underwent whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) for BMs from SCLC between February 2008 and December 2017. WBRT was de...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Anami S,Doi H,Nakamatsu K,Uehara T,Wada Y,Fukuda K,Inada M,Ishikawa K,Kanamori S,Nishimura Y

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00